From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 09:30:52 2003 Return-Path: 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 A535E16A4B3 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.whywire.net (64-83-10-246-nova-business-dsl.cavtel.net [64.83.10.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00BB43F93 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbaki@whywire.net) Received: from whywire.net (www@64-83-10-246-nova-business-dsl.cavtel.net [64.83.10.246]) by nebula.whywire.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9DGTnZ0002473 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:29:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Monah Baki" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:29:43 -0400 Message-Id: <20031013162726.M34208@whywire.net> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.10 20030731 X-OriginatingIP: 68.227.194.65 (mbaki) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Re: gdm crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:30:52 -0000 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