gdm start and load goes high logging off

[John McAree]

knowtree at aloha.com wrote:
> 1. What is the recommended way to have gdm start at the end of the boot
> sequence? It was working fine until this morning. I checked that gdm.sh is
> in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d and that looked fine. I fiddled with /etc/ttys in
> what I think was the old way, like this:

Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING, specifically the 20050411 entry 
regarding GDM.

> #ttyv8	"/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"	xterm	off secure
> ttyv8	"/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon"	xterm	on  secure
> 
> This works, but I should have had to change anything. This may be related
> to my second problem.

I can't really be sure, but that is not the correct way to start GDM on 
boot, so it's entirely possible that the second issue is related to this.

Regards,

John.