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Date:      Sun, 10 May 2009 20:30:10 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GDM users list
Message-ID:  <1242001810.88553.40.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905110218480.25029@yokozuna.lan>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905110207070.25029@yokozuna.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905110218480.25029@yokozuna.lan>

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On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 02:21 +0200, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
>=20
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I use GDM for logging in, the only possible users I can choose fro=
m are=20
> > the "logcheck system account" and "other", but not my regular user acco=
unt.=20
> > Why is that?
>=20
> I'm not sure if this is related to my problem but in my logfiles I saw=20
> some error messages:
>=20
> ...
> May 11 00:33:54 yokozuna gdm-simple-greeter[24852]: Gtk-WARNING: Failed t=
o=20
> set text from markup due to error
> parsing markup: Error on line 1: Unfinished entity reference
> May 11 00:33:54 yokozuna gdm-simple-greeter[24852]: Gtk-WARNING: Failed t=
o=20
> set text from markup due to error
> parsing markup: Error on line 1: Unfinished entity reference
> ...

This is the problem.  Your /etc/passwd entry contains a '&' which makes
for bad XML.  Replace this character with a real name for your user, and
this problem should go away.

Joe

>=20
> Marco
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