I have the same symptoms when using Xming to set up an XDMCP connection
to my Ubuntu laptop on a local network. If I start up a VMWare Player
with a LiveCD version of Ubuntu I can start a new login, press F10 and
then log in to the laptop. Logging in to a Fedora station is no problem
with Xming as
More info: I've updated the Fedora box to FC 6 and now it gives me the
well-known error message about the GNOME Settings Daemon failing to
start. The desktop environment does come up about a minute later
however.
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gnome-settings-daemon crashes at login
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61381
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