I'm not sure it's exactly what you're seeing, but recently gdm is also
having major malfunctions here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481458
gdm crashes on startup
-B.
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:57 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
After this morning updates, when you start the machine you will see
the login window with the only Other option available and flashing but
no way to login.
The only way is to start in textmode and then to issue a Startx.
What is wrong??