From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 11:29:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B453837B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0A643FBF for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:29:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1DJSjRA059010; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:28:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Mark Edwards Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <6A95C31A-3F7D-11D7-8346-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> References: <6A95C31A-3F7D-11D7-8346-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-cgI0dJDBMVhKbZSrIUIJ" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1045164559.308.51.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 13 Feb 2003 14:29:20 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,NOSPAM_INC,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.44 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 --=-cgI0dJDBMVhKbZSrIUIJ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:03, Mark Edwards wrote: > >> I've fixed my XFree86 install, and I have 4.2.1 running. All of the > >> ports mentioned above are installed. I am able to run xf86cfg > >> graphically and configure, and I can run X using startx, which loads > >> fine. > >> > >> However, when I do: > >> > >> sudo /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start > >> > >> I get: > >> > >> Feb 13 01:28:56 lilbuddy gdm[15381]: Failed to start the display=20 > >> server > >> several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 > > > > I would need to see the X log to know if it's a gdm problem. However, > > I've never tried starting gdm under sudo. >=20 > Well, the same behavior occurs if I just restart the machine and let=20 > the script be triggered normally, so I doubt that sudo has anything to=20 > do with it. Also, I successfully started gdm many times this way under=20 > gnome 2.0. >=20 > I have posted /var/log/:0.log and var/log/XFree86.0.log here: >=20 > http://mark.antsclimbtree.com/Xlog.txt Nothing useful here. You might try doing a forced rebuild of gdm2. Joe >=20 > Thanks. >=20 > -- > Mark Edwards > San Francisco, CA --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-cgI0dJDBMVhKbZSrIUIJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+S/IPb2iPiv4Uz4cRArmHAKCbKufI/EIU6ZdLWKJTtatZyH9pwACglEJt zvogtDef7fKggK2tq6Oitl8= =loDn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-cgI0dJDBMVhKbZSrIUIJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message