Hello again, Someone on debian-user was smart enough to ask somebody on IRC for help regarding this issue. Since someone on this list asked me to spread the word if I find a fix:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=debian-user&m=106662905107241&w=2 It worked, and I'm coming to you live from a working gnome 2.4 desktop. On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 04:33, Chris Eisley wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had a rather disastrous experience upgrading from gnome 2.2 to 2.4 > in sid. After the installation was finished, gdm's greeter kept dying > until the gdm wrapper-thingie mercifully put gdm to sleep. X server was > running correctly but the greeter wasn't happy. So, I installed and ran > xdm, only to have gnome-session mysteriously die moments after > generating the 2.4 splash screen, which looks very nice, I have to say. > -- Chris Eisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

