gdm, RELENG_6 update

[David Reid]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 13:42 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> 
>>In case someone else sees this problem:
>>
>>I updated a couple of i386 machines from RELENG_6 around the December 12
>>timeframe to RELENG_6 as of today.  When I was done, I rebooted and
>>discovered that gdm wasn't getting any of my keystrokes, so I couldn't
>>log in.

I have the same problem on my -CURRENT machine.

>>
>>Random search engine flailing didn't help me much, but I did notice
>>r1.63 of ports/x11/gdm/Makefile, which reads:
>>
>>
>>>Seems -CURRENT needs a few tweaks to get gdm starting correctly.  First,
>>>we need to depend on LOGIN and cleanvar in our rc.d script, plus, we need
>>>to enable VTAllocation.
>>
>>I portupgraded to gdm-2.8.0.7_1 to try to get this fix but it didn't
>>help because updating the port (rightly so) won't touch the installed
>>gdm.conf file.  It turns out that I needed to manually edit
>>/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf and set the following two lines
>>(uncommenting them if necessary...I assume that anyone reading this is
>>able to find similar-looking lines in this file and do the right thing):
>>
>>FirstVT=9
>>VTAllocation=true
>>
>>All works well now.
>>
>>I suppose a somewhat faster way to do this would be to copy
>>factory-gdm.conf (in the same directory) to gdm.conf, since I had not
>>made any changes to gdm.conf.
> 

I'll look at the files when I get home.

david