Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 9:15:38 +0200 From: Chris Delnooz <c.delnooz@home.nl> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Antw: Re: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start Message-ID: <20040422071542.6750143D60@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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> >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. > 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 an old version because i did a fresh install on this machine. I diffed the factory-gdm.conf with gdm.conf, no difference; I copied factory-gdm.conf to gdm.conf anyway, but i get the same results. Any help on how to tackle this is appreciated Regards Chris
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