From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 19 23:28:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5037637B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:28:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D4243FE0 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:28:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2K7SUNu022879; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:28:30 +0100 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:25:51 +0100 Received: from [212.190.217.220] (212.190.217.220 [212.190.217.220]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id HGD67JZW; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:25:50 +0100 From: CARTER Anthony To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4.3.0,1 +wrapper-1.0_2 In-Reply-To: <3E78FA77.4010900@myrealbox.com> References: <3E78740D.6070703@myrealbox.com> <1048089677.1021.2.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu> <3E78FA77.4010900@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1048145591.3458.3.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 20 Mar 2003 08:33:12 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.4 required=6.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_XIMIAN version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I realise what wrapper is for, but if I type pkg_delete wrappe-1.0_2 at the command line, I get: pkg_delete: package 'wrapper-1.0_2' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: XFree86-4.3.0,1 I never installed wrapper, but when I did a portupgrade to the latest XFree, I guess it installed wrapper as a dependency... I will forcably delete wrapper to see if that fixes the problem (although I will try your solution first...I don't like deleting dependencies)... Thanks, Anthony Carter On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 00:17, walt wrote: > CARTER Anthony wrote: > > Xfree requires wrapper but seems to break GDM for user logins. Is this > > normal, and can I force un-install wrapper without breaking anything? > > Excuse me, I'm a bonehead. You don't need to uninstall wrapper, just > change this symbolic link: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/X@ -> Xwrapper-4 > > to this: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/X@ -> XFree86 > > This *will* break 'startx' for ordinary users. 'Wrapper' is intended > to replace xdm and friends to create the .Xauthority in your home > directory. > > If xdm/gdm/kdm don't create the .Xauthority file then something else > must do it -- that something else is 'wrapper'. > > You don't need to use both gdm and wrapper. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message