Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:59:22 +0200 From: "alex@home" <alex@gutza36.de> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, rofug@rofug.ro Subject: gdm2-2.4.1.3 Message-ID: <3ED8B53A.330.4BDD41@localhost>
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hi, i have tried to set up the Gnome Desktop Manager on my freshly installed 4.8-STABLE box, but some errors refuse to disappear: error msg: gdm_config_parse: Authdir /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm is not owned by user nobody, group gdm. Aborting. _________________________ what i have already done: #pkg_info -L gdm2-2.4.1.3 /usr/X11R6/bin/gdm ... added this line in the group file in /etc/ gdm:*:11: same for passwd in /etc/ gdm:*:11:11:Gnome Desktop Manager:/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm:/sbin/nologin and set the entry in the /etc/ttys to /gdm on i couldn' manage to set the owner of the dir/files: (why?!) /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root gdm 512 May 29 18:47 gdm gdm.conf in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root gdm 2628 May 31 10:20 gdm.conf #chown gdm .keep_me chown: gdm: illegal user name _____________________________ what am i doing wrong?! any help will be appreciated;-) thanx in advance *bsd-n00b
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