From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Mar 26 8:26:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DB737B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp-out.comcast.net [24.153.64.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072B943F85 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.p.donadio@ieee.org) Received: from ieee.org (pcp01403617pcs.radnor01.pa.comcast.net [68.81.79.105]) by mtaout08.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HCD006FE6T9L1@mtaout08.icomcast.net> for gnome@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:22:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:23:36 -0500 From: Matthew Donadio Subject: 4.8-RC, XFree86 4.3.0, and GDM2 To: gnome@freebsd.org Message-id: <3E81D408.169FDED@ieee.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, The following was posted to freebsd-stable, and several other users seem to be having the same problem. I also submited a problem report about it, but I have not heard anything back from the FreeBSD team, so I decided to try this email address. This is a non-critical problem since there is a workaround, but I want to be sure it is taken care of. I am having some trouble with GDM2 and I was wondering if anyone can either confirm the problem or shed some light on it. I track the STABLE tree (release=cvs tag=RELENG_4) and ports tree (release=cvs tag=.) with cvsup. I held off a little while to upgrade my system to XFree86 4.3.0, but did the build last night. I brought everything up to date with cvsup, rebuilt world and kernel, installed, rebooted, and then used portupgrade (portupgrade -rR XFree86) to rebuild X. I also used portupgrade -rR to bring some gnome2 libraries uptodate. All of the builds were successful. uname -a says I am running 4.8-RC pkg_version has '=' for everything. Users and root can do a startx to start gnome2 sessions. Everything works fine. If I enable gdm2, then root can login, but users can't. I get an error message saying that the session lasted less than 10-seconds, and to check .xsession-errors. They can't login with the failsafe modes, either. .xsession-errors is empty /var/log/messages has a error: gdm[XXX]: run_session_child: Could not open ~/.xsession-errors I then created a new user, and was able to login with gdm, but I got root's session (shells started in /root, Nautilus brought up /root, etc). I renamed ~/.gnome2/gdm for an old user and the same thing happened. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Is this a bug? Thanks. -- Matthew Donadio (m.p.donadio@ieee.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message