Stuck on GDM and GNOME 2.4

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Dec 27 14:02:09 PST 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 09:31, Monah Baki wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I installed from ports gnome 2.4 and gdm on Freebsd 4.9. I copied factory-gdm.conf to 
> gdm.conf, I also copied gdm.sh.sample to gdm.sh.
> I still can't start gdm I get the following error messages:
> 
> Dec 27 10:03:15 trinity gdm[193]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; 
> disabling display :0
> Dec 27 10:08:05 trinity gdm[252]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

From where was gdm installed?  When did it start to fail?  What happens
when you try to start X using startx?  What messages do you have in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log?  How about /var/log/:0.log?  What is the uid/gid
of the gdm user?  What are the permissions on /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm?  On
/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm?

> 
> One thing I noticed in the mailing list is not to start gdm at boot time. Which file is needed for 
> that so that I can disable it.

Under normal circumstances, gdm can be started at boot time without any
problems.  However, if you wish to disable this, just remove the
/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh file.

Joe

> 
> 
> Thank you.
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