Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:03:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: trouble setting up GDM Message-ID: <20060502210332.34953.qmail@web60025.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi everyone. I am running fluxbox on my 5.4 system and I am having trouble setting up gdm. Can anyone help? $ ls -lh /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm total 38 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B May 2 11:00 Init drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B May 2 11:00 PostLogin drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B May 2 11:00 PostSession drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B May 2 11:00 PreSession drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B May 2 16:12 Sessions -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5.4K May 2 11:00 XKeepsCrashing -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6.2K May 2 11:00 Xsession -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1.8K May 2 16:09 custom.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1.8K May 2 11:00 custom.conf.default -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4.0K May 2 11:00 locale.alias -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4.0K May 2 11:00 locale.alias.orig drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B May 2 11:00 modules The fluxbox docs say to create the script 'fluxbox' under the Sessions directory: $ cat fluxbox #!/bin/sh exec /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xsession /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox But it doesn't work. This is what I get: $ cat .xsession-errors /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:1.Xservers" -h "" -l ":1" "peter" /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xsession: Cannot find Xclients /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- xsm X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 42 (X_SetInputFocus) Serial number of failed request: 202 Current serial number in output stream: 203 Also, the gdmsetup utility (that edits custom.conf above) does not start no matter what I do with the DISPLAY variable: (gdmsetup:804): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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