From owner-freebsd-gnome Fri Mar 14 17:14:22 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 59C9437B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:14:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from zircon.seattle.wa.us (dsl231-043-165.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B5B343F75 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us) Received: (qmail 60532 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2003 01:14:19 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Mar 2003 01:14:19 -0000 Subject: GDM versus fontconfig and XFree86 4.3 From: Joe Kelsey To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1047690858.60241.5.camel@zircon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 14 Mar 2003 17:14:19 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 OK, I have been fighting this for 3 days now. I went through the pain of upgrading to 4.3 and hopefully rooting out all of the extra Xft and fontconfig clutter on my disk, but I cannot get gdm2 to operate. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I think I have finally driven out the last of the Xft2 bugs and gotten rid of all of the old font-cache-1 files, but gdm refuses to start. I can use startx just fine to start up gnome-session, but gdm just plain refuses to start. I cannot get anything meaningful out of the debugging output other than it appears that it is the greeter which is dying. Does anyone have any suggestions? How do I get more info from gdm? /Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message