Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:26:32 -0700 From: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug/problem with gdm-2.2.5.5 Message-ID: <70290D4C-ABEF-11D6-B6C3-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <1028933848.55175.38.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>> My Willing line is blank, and I don't see any problems. How do you
>>> start gdm?
>>
>> From my /etc/ttys:
>>
>> ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on
>>
>>
>> I've also been able to crash gdmconfig by changing
>>
>> GtkRC=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc
>>
>> to
>>
>> GtkRC=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Metal/gtk/gtkrc
>>
>> Changing it back to "Default" stopped the crashing. I don't know what
>> 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=/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
Well, that resulted in the gdm login screen coming up with the keyboard
dead, but the mouse active. That's no good.
--
Mark Edwards
San Francisco, CA
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