From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 04:45:05 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 60F8316A400 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E996113C44B for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:45:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070611044505.BEYF13718.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:45:05 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id A4l31X0024iy4EG0000000; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:45:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:47:46 -0500 To: "Werner Lehmann" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <46695C55.6040601@arcor.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46695C55.6040601@arcor.de> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.21 (Linux) 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: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:45:05 -0000 On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:40:37 -0500, 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. Try to check what is in ~/.xsession-errors .. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks, > > Werner -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org