gdm-2.4.1.4 not launching

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Fri May 9 10:07:38 PDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 12:06, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> I do not have the original thread on this machine so am starting anew
> thread.  I said in the other gdm thread that I would check the machine
> at work that I just did a clean install on to see if the new gdm worked.
> 
> It does not.  I see the same result as on my home machine.  The
> gdm-binary process launches, the screen goes back to the console, and 
> the gdm-binary process can only be killed with kill -9.
> 
> This was a fresh install of -CURRENT,
> FreeBSD 5.1-BETA #0: Thu May  8 12:42:08 CDT 2003     root at node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLUSTER-FW 
> 
> I used the following command to install gdm and friends:
> portinstall -M BATCH=yes gnome2

Please stick this patch in /usr/ports/x11/gdm2/files, and rebuild gdm2. 
Then, make sure gdm debugging is _OFF_, and try running gdm.  There
should be some XXX messages printed to the console.  Please send them to
me.

Joe

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