From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 21:30:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D9937B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from altair.mukappabeta.net (pC19F61A9.dip.t-dialin.net [193.159.97.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51E943F3F for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from mukappabeta.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by altair.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13CE596C; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:34:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F20B362.5040308@mukappabeta.de> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:34:42 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow Organization: GeFoekoM e.V. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030504 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Zhang, Peng" References: <1059105455.353.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1059106655.345.4.camel@pzhang> In-Reply-To: <1059106655.345.4.camel@pzhang> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.75.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with gdm X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 04:30:23 -0000 Zhang, Peng wrote: > I don't have any error in the console. Just log in as pzhang, then I > actually enter as root account. The way I start gdm is to edit > /etc/ttys, i.e. modify it to > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > And as I mentioned before, I don't have this problem when I manually run > gdm as root after booting. I will try your way to see if it will work. > Thanks! I have seen the same issue a couple months ago when I tried gnome2; I never considered gdm to be properly working (afair, the ports install even warned about using it) but using xdm and running gnome-session in .xsession worked. {\obrant not that I would give a flying f*ck about it anymore, considering the most obscene way that gnome is broken and misdesigned...} -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de}