From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 21:35:35 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 E28A837B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C4C43FA3 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158])h6P4WPqP012232; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:32:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) h6P4YriZ055456; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:34:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: "Zhang, Peng" In-Reply-To: <1059106991.345.8.camel@pzhang> References: <1059105455.353.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1059106991.345.8.camel@pzhang> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-g66UMWueULHEViwybnNZ" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1059107732.353.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 25 Jul 2003 00:35:33 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) 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 04:35:36 -0000 --=-g66UMWueULHEViwybnNZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 00:23, Zhang, Peng wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:57, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:53, Peng Zhang wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > >=20 > > > I just used cvsup to upgrade my system to 4.8 stable. Now I have prob= lem > > > with gdm. When I have logged in as other user, I will log in as root.= That > > > happens when I automatically start gdm after booting. But if I start = gdm > > > myself after boot, I won't have this problem. I don't know why. Does > > > somebody have the same problem before? > >=20 > > Nope. GDM 2 works fine for me on 4.8-STABLE if it's started out of > > ${X11BASE}/etc/rc.d.=20 >=20 > There is a gdm.sh.sample file in this directory. You mean you start it > yourself or put this script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d.=20 GDM 2 cannot be started from /etc/ttys (as the pkg-message states). You need to copy this script to /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh, then run: /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start This will happen automatically at boot time. >=20 > And the gdm entry in my computer is: > gdm:*:92:92:GNOME Display Manager:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin Good, this is what it should be. Joe >=20 > > Do you have any console messages or other errors > > to indicate what's going on? What does your gdm user entry look like? > >=20 > > Joe > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Thanks! > > >=20 > > > Peng > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-g66UMWueULHEViwybnNZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/ILOUb2iPiv4Uz4cRApiGAKCawM2ipf5cCfFQBd5SMG9UwAasYwCffG7a swydJlTgbhNE9wdiiNwmpB8= =P2Jv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-g66UMWueULHEViwybnNZ--