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Date:      09 Aug 2002 18:48:17 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Bug/problem with gdm-2.2.5.5
Message-ID:  <1028933297.55175.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <7503B587-ABE9-11D6-B6C3-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com>
References:  <7503B587-ABE9-11D6-B6C3-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com>

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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 18:43, Mark Edwards wrote:
> I think I've tracked down a fairly annoying bug with the gdm port.
>=20
> I install the port on top of the full gnome install, having already creat=
ed=20
> a gdm user/group with id's of 92 (I need to do this because ID 91 gets=20
> taken by the mail/mailman port).

This is no longer needed.  I committed a patch to use 92 across the
board.

>=20
> Upon first boot, it is possible to run gdmconfig from the gdm login panel=
.
>    However, after a change is made to the configuration, running gdmconfi=
g=20
> results in a freeze which requires killing the gdmconfig process from=20
> another machine.
>=20
> What seems to be happening is gdmconfig is changing this line from gdm.co=
nf:
>=20
> Willing=3D/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xwilling
>=20
> to:
>=20
> Willing=3D
>=20
> If that config line is blank, gdmconfig will crash.  If I replace the lin=
e=20
> with the original, gdmconfig boots again, but changing the configuration=20
> results in the line getting messed-up again.
>=20
> This didn't used to happen with an earlier version of the port.  Is this=20
> just a bug in gdm?  Is this a bug in the port?

My Willing line is blank, and I don't see any problems.  How do you
start gdm?

Joe

>=20
> --
> Mark Edwards
> San Francisco, CA
>=20
>=20


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