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Date:      Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:54:51 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        David Vastine <dvastine@vastine.net>
Cc:        Gnome-FreeBSD List <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GNOME Session not avaliable in GDM
Message-ID:  <1065286491.27243.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031004034550.GA41874@vastine.net>
References:  <1064977629.293.9.camel@localhost> <1064979926.91198.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031004034550.GA41874@vastine.net>

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On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:45, David Vastine wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:45:26PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:07, James Pole wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >=20
> > > After doing a cvsup and a portuprade a few daya ago GDM now dosn't ha=
ve
> > > GNOME in its session menu. Now whenever I login without choosing a
> > > session it always goes into Failsafe Xterm. In order for me to use GN=
OME
> > > at all, I have to manually select Failsafe GNOME each time I login us=
ing
> > > GDM.
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Copy /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf to
> > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf.  Note, this is discussed in the Known
> > Issues section at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/.
> >=20
> > Joe
> >=20
>=20
> 	I am also seeing this issue with a 5.1-CURRENT.  Copying the conf
> file did not help.  Gnome seems to run just fine, just gives the error
> about not being able to find a gnome session in the menu and then says
> it is logging into the failsafe session.  Any other ideas?  Something
> else I should look at?  Thanks.

Once you copy the default configuration file over, you need to reboot to
get gdm to restart properly.

Joe

>=20
> David
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