Gnome 2.3

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 22:12, Nawfal bin Mohmad Rouyan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I managed to install Gnome 2.4 beta 1 using Marcus tree. I have
> several problems and since I'm new to Gnome, I would like to ask
> several questions.
> 
> Firstly, I'm using FreeBSD 4-STABLE. Below is the output of my uname
> -a.
> 
> FreeBSD nawfal.cyber.mmu.edu.my 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #7:
> Wed Aug 13 17:25:05 MYT 2003    
> opal at nawfal.cyber.mmu.edu.my:/usr/src/sys/compile/NAWFAL  i386
> 
> The problem is with application such as evolution. After I compile
> and install it, the binary still points to the old libraries (Gnome
> 2.2) although the libraries does not exist in my system.
> 
> How do I point it to the new library. Is it have something to do
> with my pkgconfig? And it seems that gdm does not allow any users to
> login. I get this error everytime I tried to login using gdm.

You have to rebuild everything that depends on the new library.  Also,
be sure to use the marcusmerge script so that the bsd.gnome.mk file is
merged.  Without that, all your dependencies will still point to the old
shared lib versions.

> 
> gdm_slave_session_start: Execution of PostLogin script returned > 0.
> Aborting.

Copy /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf to /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf,
and you should be good to go.

Joe

> 
> Please mail me if you need any log file or configuration file that
> might help in troubleshooting.
> 
> Thank you.
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