ISPConfig Conflict with Fedora Core 7 and Fedora Core 8

I was installing ISPConfig to a Fedora Core 7 Installation but when I rebooted, it shows a black screen with a cursor that appears to be “busy”. Logging in remotely via ssh seems to be working but when I check out which process was “hanging” by issuing the “top” command, I see that gdmgreeter seems to be using up a lot of CPU resource. About 70% to 90%.

After searching google for “ISPconfig conflict” “ispconfig gdmgreeter” “ispconfig hang” and similar keywords, the solution I found that worked best was to create/edit the file called “/etc/sysconfig/desktop”

vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop

and add the following two lines to the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop

DESKTOP=”GNOME”
DISPLAYMANAGER=”KDE”
After reboot, everything works properly. I believe this solution also works for Fedora Core 8. Leave a comment if it worked for you.



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One Response to 'ISPConfig Conflict with Fedora Core 7 and Fedora Core 8'

  1. SlowTCP - February 13th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    There’s no need to do these.
    It’s a problem of gdm (very silly).

    ISPConfig’s setup procedure puts two lines into /etc/shells
    /bin/false and
    /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/

    AND forgets to put a new line character at the end…
    Because of the bug(?) in GDM it can’t process it anymore.

    Solution:
    Open the file /etc/shells and put a new line at the end of the last line and gdm will start again correctly.

    If someone have registered at howtoforge please post this message into
    http://www.howtoforge.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18463
    and http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13918&page=2
    and the fedora community portal:
    http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=49445&forum=10&post_id=227670


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