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Subject: RE: Antw: Re: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start
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> > >Apr 21 17:27:13 morreion gdmgreeter[541]: greeter_parse_config: No
> > >configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults.
> > >Apr 21 17:27:51 morreion gdmgreeter[567]: greeter_parse_config: No
> > >configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults.
> > >
> > >These confuse me because gdm.conf is exactly at the specified location
> > >and it's world readable so gdm should have no problem at all reading 
>the
> > >file.
> >
> > Is that a file from a previous version of gdm?
> > Maybe the syntax has changed, and the error message is just\
> > misleading.
> >
> > The gdm package/ port comes with a sample ...
> >
> > >pkg_info -L gdm2-2.6.0.0_1 | grep gdm.conf
> > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf
> >
> > which you could copy in to place and see if that works better.
>It can't be from a previous versions, I did a complete new installation of 
>FBSD on this machine. I diff-ed the two and there were no differences. But 
>I went ahead and copied factory-gdm.conf to gdm.conf. No change, the same 
>error pop-up, the same warnings in the message log...
>
>I'm open for suggestions how to further tackle this...
>


Have you tried gdmsetup?

Also, there is always kdm if you can't get it going.

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