From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 17:36:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1101516A468 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:36:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDF213C447 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:36:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l58HaipL037748; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:36:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l58Habq9037747; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:36:37 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Werner Lehmann Message-ID: <20070608173637.GA33018@thought.org> References: <46695C55.6040601@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46695C55.6040601@arcor.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM does not start anymore in gnome2.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:36:51 -0000 On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:40:37PM +0200, Werner Lehmann wrote: > I did a fresh install of FreeBSD6.2, Xorg7.2 and gnome 2.18 from the > 6-stable-packages, my xserver is properly configured, but when I type > "gdm" at the prompt as root (xserver not started), nothing happens, like > before in gnome 2.16 or 2.14, not even a message. It just looks like this: > > # gdm > # > > The gdm daemon seems to be running though, because if you type "gdm" > again at the prompt, You get: > > # gdm > # GDM already running. Aborting! > > > Something must have changed with gdm in gnome 2.18, but that issue is > not covered in the gnome2.18 Installation Instructions. > I don't know how to start gdm/gnome now. > > I posted that question in bsdforums.org also and got the following > response so far: > > "Try to install gnome instead from packages from ports > Packages are not for 7.2 xorg yet so several problems may arrive." > > I don't know if that is true, as I want to believe that the > 6-stable-packages are coherent with each other. > > > Please help and update the Gnome Installation Instructions if/as needed. Hi, First, what exactly do you want to do? If you want to autoboot into Gnome, you need the ``gdm_enable="YES" (in /etc/rc.conf). Sounds like you *do* have that because you got the "Aborting!" message. If _not_, then set YES to NO and in your ~/.xsession put "^exec gnome-session" and then as root: # gdm Until just now I had similar problems to yours. Emails to <-> from this list said that either I needed to add (portupgrade -a) or re-run the symlink script that's mentioned in /usr/ports/UPGRADING. It's been challenging several days, but aftr several portupgrades (*and* pkgdb -F runs), and the script mentioned in /usr/ports/UPGRADING, that I would exec with -x: sh -x /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh This is OT, but you might try putting "startkde" into your ~/.xsession and do # kdm. This *should* exec the kdm xlogin manager. I prefer it to GDM becuase it lets you select any window mmanager ("Desktop") that you prefer. With the gdm manager you've got to mess around and create *.desktop. (I'm using xfce4.desktop for root; ctwm.desktop for other accounts). If you want to default to Gnome, keep at it;) good luck! gary > Thanks, > > Werner > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix