From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 10:45:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C5616A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FB143D5A for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.delnooz@home.nl) Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=38720 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGLmO-0007WY-6O for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:45:00 +0200 Received: from cp154900-a.roemd1.lb.home.nl ([217.120.92.215]:7933 helo=[192.168.0.13]) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGLmN-0006yU-H9 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:44:59 +0200 From: "C. Delnooz" To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1082576756.41008.3.camel@morreion.wizards.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:45:57 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:45:01 -0000 Hi all, recently I installed the Gnome 2.6 port on my machine, and everything works just fine when I start X via startx. However, when I try to start gdm (using /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh) as display manager i get an error pop-up with the following text: "The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will try to use another one." This repeats a few times until I get the chance to kill the gdm process. Checking the messages log, I see the following warnings: 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. I tried to turn on the extra debugging in gdm.conf but since it won't read the darn file, I won't get extra debug output. I'm running FBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 and the latest gnome ports. I've no clue what's going wrong, so any help would be appreciated. Regards, Chris