From owner-freebsd-gnome Fri Mar 14 17:21:24 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 D464837B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1E343FBF for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:21:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2F1KVrI041287; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:20:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: GDM versus fontconfig and XFree86 4.3 From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Joe Kelsey Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1047690858.60241.5.camel@zircon> References: <1047690858.60241.5.camel@zircon> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9xKctTb4thQbVkEueJHv" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1047691273.74578.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 14 Mar 2003 20:21:14 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-33.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 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 --=-9xKctTb4thQbVkEueJHv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 20:14, Joe Kelsey wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Does anyone have any suggestions? The XFree86 4.3.0 upgrade was one of the most painless things I've ever done considering its size. The only thing I needed to do after the upgrade was get to a vty, and run fc-cache -f. Mezz reported he had to reinstall fontconfig from scratch. Some users ran into a bug in fontconfig that was just fixed yesterday. However, if gdm isn't starting where as gnome-session is, you might try copying the factory-gdm.conf to gdm.conf, and see if that helps. You might also want to verify the perms on /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm: drwxr-x--- 3 gdm gdm 512 Mar 14 19:57 gdm/ You may also want to verify your PAM config for gdm, and try reinstalling gdm2 as well. > How do I get more info from gdm? The debug is the best way. This may mean something to the GDM authors.=20 Out of curiosity, are you running -CURRENT with fdesc mounted? If so, try unmounting it, and see if that helps. Joe >=20 > /Joe >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-9xKctTb4thQbVkEueJHv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+coAJb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgaaAJ4qANl8k+Lig7fXN0Wf3jSYHVT1/QCdGATH Kj6ccJxcA5nVQc5YrKOeiDU= =rtUY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9xKctTb4thQbVkEueJHv-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message