While fooling around with the XDMCP configuration on Ubuntu I checked the “Enable accessible login” under the “Accessibility” tab, Big mistake 😦 , on the next reboot I got the following error ” The greeter application appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one ” . I was not able to login into Ubuntu as the greeter kept crashing repeatedly.
I searched on the Ubuntu forums, most of the fixes on the Ubuntu forums talked about unchecking the box but the problem was that I couldn’t login into the system to do that in the first place. After studying the gdm.conf I figured out a way to fix this.
If the GUI fails to load and you are unable to access the system menu then you should try the instructions below.
- Reboot your computer into maintenance mode/recovery mode.
- Open /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom by entering the following command
sudo vim /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
- Press “i” to enter into insert mode. Locate the following line and comment it by inserting a # in front of the line.
GtkModulesList=gail:atk-bridge:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libdwellmouselistener:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libkeymouselistener - Press the Esc key and then type in :wq to save and quit the editor.
- Type sudo init 6 to reboot that should fix the problem. I am using gutsy beta and looks like this problem has been present in Ubuntu ever since dapper hope they fix it before gutsy gets released.
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