Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?

[Uwe Laverenz]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote:

> I tried to remove the directories that was not removed by deinstall
> manually, and then installed again, now no complaints about not being
> able to uninstall I can now start gdm again, with out any complaints,
> but when I run sockstat I cannot see gdm-binary active nor any listen
> on udp 177.
> 
> Any suggestions?

GDM 2.24 ist broken, not only on FreeBSD but also on other systems like
Fedora. My personal workaround ist to keep using 2.20 for now, which
seems to be the last working version that came from the gnome team.

There is a thread about this at the freebsd-gnome mailing list.

Uwe