From owner-freebsd-gnome Mon Jul 8 12:23:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C748937B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from epa.secret.org (epa.secret.org [206.220.140.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283F143E52 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fernando@secret.org) Received: from localhost (fernando@localhost) by epa.secret.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA84874; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:40:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Elwood Blues To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: James Satterfield , Subject: Re: gdm hangs after entering username In-Reply-To: <1025932752.12326.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Joe, > > Changing -nodaemon to --nodaemon did not resolve the problem. However using > > the init script makes everything happy. > > Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you troubleshoot this > > problem. > > Well, it looks like the shell script may be the way to go. One other > thing you can try is to start gdm out of ttys without any arguments. > That is, just run gdm by itself. > > Joe I had a simular problem with gdm2, but starting from a shell script didnt help. A truss of the running gdm process showed what looked like a loop of open-read-close of /etc/pwd.db, any ideas? -F To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message