Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> Whilst testing and update from 5.3 to 5.4 I updated gdm to 
> gdm-1:2.16.0-56.el5.x86_64.rpm
> Restarting gdm before seeing the login screen a box appears with the 
> message:
>  	There was an error loading the theme RHEL
>  	Cannot open file /usr/share/gdm/themes/RHEL/RHEL.xml
> 
> # rpmqv -f /usr/share/gdm/themes/RHEL/*
> redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.6.noarch.rpm
> ...
> 
> It seems that /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf has changed the default theme
> # diff /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf*
> 459c459
> < GraphicalTheme=RHEL
> ---
>> GraphicalTheme=EaseOfBlue
> 
> Reversing this change fixes the problem.
> 

Yes.
That is why the release has
gdm-2.16.0-56.sl.i386.rpm
We have to make changes to gdm.
Where did you get gdm-1:2.16.0-56.el5.x86_64.rpm?
I thought I moved it out of the way before pushing this up to the Alpha 
releases.
Troy
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