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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:29:43 -0400
From:      "Monah Baki" <mbaki@whywire.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gdm crashes
Message-ID:  <20031013162726.M34208@whywire.net>

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Yes I did copy factory-gdm.conf over the current gdm.conf. Same problem.

Thank you


On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:06, Monah Baki wrote:
Hi all,

I upgraded my freebsd 5.1 ports tree, so I can install gnome 2.4. When everything was installed, 
I tried running as root gdm, I got the following error:

gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children. 

This happens when X is about to start the login screen, flickers and drops to a shell and gives 
this error. This happens for 8 times, then this remark:

The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that 
something bad is going on. I will wait for 2 minutes before trying to login again on display :0.


I also patched the following

http://people.freebsd.org/~marcus/pam_get_user.c.diff

Did you also copy the factory-gdm.conf over the current gdm.conf?

Joe



By default, I setup the system to run wmaker, so if I type startx, I can get in no problem.

Thank you



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