ports/65634: x11-wm/xfce4 and x11/gdm2 - GDM session file not installing correctly

[Linh Pham]

>Number:         65634
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       x11-wm/xfce4 and x11/gdm2 - GDM session file not installing correctly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 16 11:10:22 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Linh Pham
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD q.internal.closedsrc.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Mar 5 14:09:42 PST 2004 question at q.internal.closedsrc.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Q i386
>Description:
When building and installing x11-wm/xfce4 from Ports with "WITH_GDM" set,
the XFCE4.desktop session file is not installed correctly if
${X11BASE}/etc/dm/Sessions/ is not created. Instead of creating a directory,
the contents of files/XFCE4.desktop is installed as
${X11BASE}/etc/dm/Sessions as a file and not
${X11BASE}/etc/dm/Sessions/XFCE4.desktop.

This causes GDM to not recognize the session files and logs the following
error into syslog:

gdmgreeter[pid]: No default session link found. Using Failsafe GNOME

It could be that x11/gdm2 is not creating the Sessions directory in the
first place as the default session link isn't even created during install, but
there needs to be a check in the Makefile that should create the directory if
it doesn't exist.
>How-To-Repeat:
1. Clean Install of FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE
2. Build and install x11/XFree86-4
3. Build and install x11/gdm2
4. Build and install x11-wm/xfce4
>Fix:
x11/gdm2 should be installing ${X11BASE}/etc/dm/Sessions along with a default
session link file at the end of 'make install'.

x11-wm/xfce4 needs to check to see if ${X11BASE}/etc/dm/Sessions exists as a
directory and create it if it does not exist.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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