Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:19:45 +0000 From: "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start Message-ID: <BAY2-F52uERIqVDokSU0001eaf0@hotmail.com>
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>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. > 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. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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