gdm, RELENG_6 update

[Mark Nowiasz]

> 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.

Same here after updating STABLE.


> 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.

Unfortunately, it won't work for me - changing /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf to

        FirstVT=9
        VTAllocation=true

has no, repeat, *no* effect at all.

I even tried to replace my custom gdm.conf with factory-gdm.conf (where
the lines above are enabled), but to no avail :-(

Disabling gdm in /etc/rc.conf, rebooting, logging in as root, enabling
gdm and starting gdm using /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start *will* work,
though.

So there's apparently still a race between init and gdm, which 

        FirstVT=9
        VTAllocation=true

won't fix...

Right now gdm is absolutely useless - does anyone have an idea how to
fix the problem?

My system (AMD64):

tower# uname -a
FreeBSD tower.nowiasz.de 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #4: Thu Dec 29
17:12:43 CET 2005     root at tower.nowiasz.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TOWER
amd64

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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