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Date:      Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:24:46 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Mark Zytkovicz <markz@ipa.cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gdm doesn't allow username input
Message-ID:  <1073510686.765.58.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <40862A4C32426349A9AB3BB0C233CD665817BE@occmail.occ.harvard.edu>
References:  <40862A4C32426349A9AB3BB0C233CD665817BE@occmail.occ.harvard.edu>

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On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:08, Mark Zytkovicz wrote:
> This is a strange one.
>=20
> I've just finished a massive port upgrade on 5.0-release.
> I logged out of gnome (probably shouldn't have even
> been there, but whatever) and it noted that the versions
> of gdm were different, restart gdm or reboot.  I figure
> it was as good a time as any to reboot.
>=20
> Well, gdm comes up and asks for the password - no username.
> Nothing I type gets me anywhere.  I can go through the
> menus and enter the root password to configure the login
> manager, but I never get asked to enter the username, just
> the password.
>=20
> I've checked google, bsdforums and current, and haven't
> seen any mention of it.  I have gdm2 as of Jan5, and can't
> get into a server right now to cvsup.
>=20
> Any thoughts?

Upgrade to at least 5.1-RELEASE (5.2-RC preferred).  GNOME is no longer
supported on 5.0-RELEASE.

Joe

>=20
> -Z
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