From owner-freebsd-gnome Fri Aug 9 15:58:46 2002 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 36F6237B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C31B43E77 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g79MuDEF048535; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:56:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Bug/problem with gdm-2.2.5.5 From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Mark Edwards Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-453NkUYw4aSbUI/bxXzc" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 09 Aug 2002 18:57:28 -0400 Message-Id: <1028933848.55175.38.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 --=-453NkUYw4aSbUI/bxXzc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 18:54, Mark Edwards wrote: > On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > 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. > >> > >> I install the port on top of the full gnome install, having already=20 > >> created > >> a gdm user/group with id's of 92 (I need to do this because ID 91 gets > >> taken by the mail/mailman port). > > > > This is no longer needed. I committed a patch to use 92 across the > > board. >=20 > When did you do this? I just cvsup'd my ports tree two days ago, and gdm= =20 > refused to install unless I first made a user/group gdm with 92 myself. Five minutes ago. >=20 > >> > >> Upon first boot, it is possible to run gdmconfig from the gdm login pa= nel. > >> However, after a change is made to the configuration, running gdmco= nfig > >> results in a freeze which requires killing the gdmconfig process from > >> another machine. > >> > >> What seems to be happening is gdmconfig is changing this line from=20 > >> gdm.conf: > >> > >> Willing=3D/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xwilling > >> > >> to: > >> > >> Willing=3D > >> > >> If that config line is blank, gdmconfig will crash. If I replace the = line > >> with the original, gdmconfig boots again, but changing the configurati= on > >> results in the line getting messed-up again. > >> > >> This didn't used to happen with an earlier version of the port. Is th= is > >> 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? >=20 > From my /etc/ttys: >=20 > ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on >=20 >=20 > I've also been able to crash gdmconfig by changing >=20 > GtkRC=3D/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc >=20 > to >=20 > GtkRC=3D/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Metal/gtk/gtkrc >=20 > Changing it back to "Default" stopped the crashing. I don't know what=20 > could be different on my end, but this stuff is 100% repeatable. Can you try to start gdm from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d with the following script: #!/bin/sh PREFIX=3D/usr/X11R6 case "$1" in start) ${PREFIX}/bin/gdm ;; stop) /usr/bin/killall gdm 2>/dev/null ;; *) echo "$0 start | stop" ;; esac Let me know if this fixes things for you. Joe >=20 > -- > Mark Edwards > San Francisco, CA >=20 >=20 --=-453NkUYw4aSbUI/bxXzc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9VEjYb2iPiv4Uz4cRAp0LAKCNyulnQdqP/uX/XMUzEMpTaBuX3ACgglpV ffDr36G9aMBPaWY//cZurKQ= =1ClX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-453NkUYw4aSbUI/bxXzc-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message