Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?

[Klaus Friis Østergaard]

2009/1/30 Klaus Friis Østergaard <farremosen at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> I have an amd64 box with FreeBSD 7.0, just upgrade to gnome 2.24.
>
> No I have a problem with getting gdm to start.
>
> I have trieded to:
> make deinstall
>
> results in problem with deleting following directories:
>
> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/share/gdm'
> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory
> '/usr/local/etc/gdm/PreSession'
> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory
> '/usr/local/etc/gdm/PostSession'
> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/etc/gdm/Init'
>
> Should I just manually remove these directories?
>
> recompiling and installing gdm again when I try to start gdm
>
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start
>
> I get following:
>
> ** (gdm-binary:5267): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager
>
> ** (gdm-binary:5267): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out
>
> When I run sockstat I can see that gdm-binary is not running.
>
> I have googled and found some mentioning something about the dbus
> system and programs not running as root, but how do I proceed.
>
> any help apriciated
>
> By the way, I need this box as a server where thin clients connect to
> via xdmcp and get to login via gdm on the server.
>
> All I did was upgrading from Gnome 2.22 to 2.24 via ports.
>
> /klaus

I tried to remove the directories that was not removed by deinstall
manually, and then installed again, now no complaints about not being
able to uninstall I can now start gdm again, with out any complaints,
but when I run sockstat I cannot see gdm-binary active nor any listen
on udp 177.

Any suggestions?

In /usr/local/etc/gdm/custum.conf

I have only
[xdmcp]
 Enable=true
 Port=177

/Klaus