Hi, I had the same Problem (solved by the info above, thanks!). Gnome Display Manager (GDM) startet with an old default theme (all gdm customizations seemed to be gone), a kind of "Reboot Button" at the logout window was not there anymore.
If I tried to start gdmsetup: "Failed to connect to socket", "Could not access GDM configuration file" (In german: "Zugriff auf die GDM- Konfigurationsdatei war nicht möglich"). I run Ubuntu 6.10. I have "Boot Up Manager" (BUM) installed, and disable unneeded serices there. I also use 'sysv-rc-conf" --priority'. Today I saw in BUM that bootclean script was disabled, anyway I wanted it enabled now. After doing this the problem was there. After disabling bootclean in BUM the problem is gone. Obviously it is just a small incompatibility issue between GDM and bootclean (and BUM!?), that occurs, if bootclean is executed after the gdm socketfile is written, as mentioned in the other posts. I agree that it is not really a GDM bug. But as I don't remember if I installed bootclean or it's installed as standard or wether I disabled it in BUM, it's hard to say, where the problem lies. Anyway I am quite sure that I didn't change anything with the symlinks to init.d manually. It just has to be taken care of, that bootclean is never run to late in the boot process (hence the note in the script). Or maybe it would be possible, to integrate an (interactive/file creation date aware, etc.) file exception list into the bootclean script?! thx -- gdm's socket in /tmp is deleted by bootclean https://launchpad.net/bugs/79620 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
