cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login

[stan]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:48:44PM -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:17, stan wrote:
> > I cvsup'd today (main and ports), then did a portupgrade -aRR, and now I
> > can't get loged intot a session using gdm.
> > 
> > I've rebooted the machine, and blown awa ~/.g[cn]* in my user home
> > directory. Still no luck. I tried the "Gnome failsafe" session, still no
> > luck. Looks like it doesn't even _try_ to start Gnome, and I get a console
> > message about 
> > 
> >  gdm_slave_session_start: Execution of PostLogin script returned > 0. Aborting.
> 
> 
> Heh... same thing happened to me. Here is what you need to do:
> 
> cd into /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm. There you find your gdm.conf. After the
> cvsup, you have (or have a newer version of) factory-gdm.conf. A
> comparison showed wha'ts missing. Go ahead and edit gdm.conf. Search for
> "PostSessionScriptDir". You should see a path assigned to it. You should
> also see a definition of "PreSessionScriptDir". What you don't see is
> "PostLoginScriptDir". Go ahead and add to that section following line:
>  
>   PostLoginScriptDir=/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/PostLogin/
> 
> Then restart gdm ("/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh stop" and 
> "/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start") and you should be good to go.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Indeed it did!


Thanks for the help on this.

BTW, out of curoisity, Did I need to delete the ~/.g[nc]*
filles/directories? If I had  not would they have been auto upgraded?

Looking foward to playing with Gnome 2.4, hope it's a step back twoard 1.4
from 2.2, which I loathe.


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