From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 16:22:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD9F16A400 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:22:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net (eastrmmtao104.cox.net [68.230.240.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A52D13C447 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070613162239.VMUQ8179.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:22:39 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id B4Ne1X00T4iy4EG0000000; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:22:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:25:33 -0500 To: "Werner Lehmann" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <46695C55.6040601@arcor.de> <466FAC81.9070603@arcor.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <466FAC81.9070603@arcor.de> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.21 (Linux) Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM does not start anymore in gnome2.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:22:40 -0000 On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:36:17 -0500, Werner Lehmann wrote: > Hi Mezz, > > I found the problem myself: > > It's in the "/usr/local/share/gnome/gdm/defaults.conf" file, which > replaces the "gdm. conf" now (see gnome.org/projects/gdm). In there all > the paths that refer to "X" point to "/usr/X11R6/bin/X", which is wrong > now with xorg7.2. So I modified all paths in defaults.conf to > "/usr/local/bin/X" and now it works fine. > A "dmesg -a" showed me this before: "gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not > found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit..." > That's how I got the first idea what was wrong. > > As I said, I did a fresh install of all from the 6-stable packages, this > means that the gdm-package (and maybe other packages as well?) are not > properly compiled for use with the new xorg 7.2, although gnome2.18 > installs the new xorg as a dependency. When you did a fresh installation of xorg, you still should run the /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh script. But, you have found a real bug that mergebase.sh (symlink of /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local) made it blind. > You need to report this to the packages-people, please. Actually, gnome@FreeBSD.org is maintaining for gdm, so it's our job to do it. ;-) I have committed a fix in ports tree with bump. Thanks for report! Cheers, Mezz > Greetings, > > Werner > > > > Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:40:37 -0500, Werner Lehmann >> wrote: >> >>> I did a fresh install of FreeBSD6.2, Xorg7.2 and gnome 2.18 from the >>> 6-stable-packages, my xserver is properly configured, but when I type >>> "gdm" at the prompt as root (xserver not started), nothing happens, >>> like before in gnome 2.16 or 2.14, not even a message. It just looks >>> like this: >>> >>> # gdm >>> # >>> >>> The gdm daemon seems to be running though, because if you type "gdm" >>> again at the prompt, You get: >>> >>> # gdm >>> # GDM already running. Aborting! >>> >>> >>> Something must have changed with gdm in gnome 2.18, but that issue is >>> not covered in the gnome2.18 Installation Instructions. >>> I don't know how to start gdm/gnome now. >>> >>> I posted that question in bsdforums.org also and got the following >>> response so far: >>> >>> "Try to install gnome instead from packages from ports >>> Packages are not for 7.2 xorg yet so several problems may arrive." >>> >>> I don't know if that is true, as I want to believe that the >>> 6-stable-packages are coherent with each other. >>> >>> >>> Please help and update the Gnome Installation Instructions if/as >>> needed. >> >> Try to check what is in ~/.xsession-errors .. >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Werner -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org