GNOME 2.16 upgrade -- lost remote logins and sessions

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:59:58 -0500, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I upgraded to GNOME 2.16 today on my i386 UNP 6.1-STABLE box.  I
> followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and all went well using the instructions.
>
> The problems I'm experiencing are as follows:
>
> GNOME no longer lists the sessions I've created in  
> /usr/X11R6/etc/dm/Sessions/

Because GNOME has been moved from /usr/X11R6/ to /usr/local, so you should  
be put those files in /usr/local/etc/dm/Sessions/.

Cheers,
Mezz

> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 16 22:39 RCS
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  185 Sep 13 11:14 WindowMaker.desktop
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  185 Oct 16 22:38 XFCE.desktop
>
> and gdm no longer accepts remote connections, even though it did before
> the upgrade and I've used the GUI to enable remote logins several times.
> Also, it appears that somehow in the upgrade process my XFCE.desktop
> session file was deleted.  I don't know why WindowMaker wasn't deleted
> too.
>
> Another curious thing...  I use the GUI to enable remote logins, search
> the filesystem under /usr/X11R6, and find no changes have been written
> to the filesystem.
>
> Any tips, pointers, suggestions are welcome :)


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