From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 12:11:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (procyon-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D108237B408 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA26432; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:11:03 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <016901c1363e$84bdfb80$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Philip Murray" Cc: References: <20010905004424.N95138-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Subject: Re: GDM not working Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:11:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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