Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 02:01:43 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: John McAree <freebsd@mcaree.org> Cc: "freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org" <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GDM 2.4 Problems Message-ID: <1064296903.27882.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1064295383.899.2.camel@avenger.telusman.com> References: <1064295383.899.2.camel@avenger.telusman.com>
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--=-kXyO4KOTYOBGbauXyH6s Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 01:36, John McAree wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I see there have been some issues with people using GDM 2.4... well I'm > having a different one! >=20 > I installed FreeBSD 5.1 on a 2nd hand laptop a few weeks ago. Gnome 2.2 > installed from ports fine, and I was able to enable GDM by using the > startup script /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh. >=20 > Last week I decided to format and reinstall. I cvsup'd my ports almost > immediately after install, and installed the Gnome2 port, which turned > out to be Gnome 2.4 (which I had read wasn't going to be in ports until > October...) Anyway, when running GDM (version 2.4.4.1), either from the > startup script, or directly from the command line as root, it segfaults > (good ol' sig 11). It seems to start running, then dies... the X server > starts, but the login screen doesn't appear, then gdm segfaults and I'm > left back at my console prompt. X works fine otherwise, I can launch a > Gnome 2.4 session with 'startx'. I've also tried deleting my gdm.conf > file and using the factory one to no avail. >=20 > I'd appreciate anyone who can shed some light on this! Did you read the Known Issues here: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/knownissues.html Joe >=20 > Regards, >=20 > John. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-kXyO4KOTYOBGbauXyH6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/b+HHb2iPiv4Uz4cRAoc1AKCoSpXbJpj1P75OOeTRJLyprfbZ4wCeISnC o9gC+aV0qBHBYgjKIuJWiKM= =JnVC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kXyO4KOTYOBGbauXyH6s--
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