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Clark
Asked: 2010-09-07 11:20:27 +0800 CST

GDM don't show available users list and don't switch layout

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Good night! I can't login through GDM but can via terminal. Also I can't change layout but successfully do it via terminal.

This is example of /var/log/messages endline: 

gdm-simple-greeter[...]: Couldn't enumerate devices
...the permission of the setuid helper is not correct...
And this "permission of the setuid" is everywhere in GDM logs. What the problem is?

fedora

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  1. Best Answer

    Apologies for just posting links but I cannot reproduce the problem myself. I hope this is useful none the less.

    There is a thread on this problem on ubuntuforums.org

    The solution there was

    • log in tty1 console as root
    • stop gdm
    • startx
    • Now if you are able to see the desktop, connect to the internet and reinstall dbus related stuff from synaptic.

    Another thread suggests the following command may also work

    sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome
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