GDM startup problem

Guillermo García-Rojas garciarojas at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 16:23:03 PST 2004


Reinstall and check the messages, you need to patch it.


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:07:43 +0100, Niklas Lundell <nilu at demum.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having some problems with GDM. It seems to restart itself a couple
> of times before it hangs, all without showing any dialog. It doesn't
> matter if I use the standard greeter or the graphical one.
> 
> The following error messages are repeatedly shown on the console:
> 
> kernel: pid 33991 (gdm-binary), uid 92: exited on signal 6
> gdm[33989]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 0)
> kernel: pid 33991 (gdm-binary), uid 92: exited on signal 6
> gdm[33989]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 1)
> kernel: pid 33991 (gdm-binary), uid 92: exited on signal 6
> gdm[33989]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 1 1)
> 
> My system is running FreeBSD 5.3 with gdm2-2.6.0.6, xorg-server-6.7, and
> gnome-2.8. The system is newly upgraded (using portupgrade) from FreeBSD
> 5.2.1 (where GDM worked just fine :-)
> 
> If anyone has any advice on this issue, I'd be grateful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Niklas
> 
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