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[s]:Unknown username "gdm" in message bus configuration file

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[s]:Unknown username "gdm" in message bus configur

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Post by michel7 » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:48 pm

On booting i get following error
Starting system message bus: Unknown username "gdm" in message bus configuration file
Can anyone help with solving this error?
Last edited by michel7 on Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by michel7 » Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:49 pm

editing /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ConsoleKit.conf solved this problem
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Can you indicate what change you made

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Post by kdvgent » Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:43 pm

Same problem here - what change did you made to this file?
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Post by purpler » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:28 pm

i have same warning too..
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F7Co ... 4ef50483d7
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Post by krovisser » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:05 am

I just renamed the only instance of "gdm" in that file to "kdm".

EDIT: Thought that worked; it didn't. I just commented that part out. Works fine now.
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Post by mwallace » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:22 am

Renaming gdm to kdm does not solve it here.
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