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Subject: Stuck on GDM and GNOME 2.4
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Hi all,

I installed from ports gnome 2.4 and gdm on Freebsd 4.9. I copied factory-gdm.conf to 
gdm.conf, I also copied gdm.sh.sample to gdm.sh.
I still can't start gdm I get the following error messages:

Dec 27 10:03:15 trinity gdm[193]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; 
disabling display :0
Dec 27 10:08:05 trinity gdm[252]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

One thing I noticed in the mailing list is not to start gdm at boot time. Which file is needed for 
that so that I can disable it.


Thank you.