Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:11:08 +0200 From: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: "Philip Murray" <pmurray@monolith.open2view.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GDM not working Message-ID: <016901c1363e$84bdfb80$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> References: <20010905004424.N95138-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Hello, >> I just installed gdm via pkg_add from the 4.3 CD and when FreeBSD boots X comes >> up but just sits at it's grey screen. The gdm chooser never appears. >> >> I've looked up and down and I can't find any reason for it doing so, no error >> messages at all. I've left it for a while to see if it would time out on somethin >> but to no avail. >> >> How do I get it to work? > I'm having the same problem with the latest gdm and 4.3-RELEASE. Someone > suggested recompiling all my Gnome components, but that doesn't work > either. I think the problem might be with XFree 4.x. To get any error messages, did you try to start "gdm -nodaemon" from the console as root? I remember similar problems with kdm, but can't tell you what exactly went wrong. Note that many startup programs for X are just scripts. So bother to look into them, add some "echo"es to track down, where it hangs. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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