From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 04:59:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B5137B401 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 04:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail3.netbeat.de (mail3.netbeat.de [62.208.140.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECD7843F93 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 04:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@gutza36.de) Received: (qmail 4293 invoked by uid 101); 31 May 2003 11:59:25 -0000 Received: from dsl01.212.114.236.62.nefkom.net (HELO Xanthos) (212.114.236.62) by mail3.netbeat.de with SMTP; 31 May 2003 11:59:25 -0000 From: "alex@home" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, rofug@rofug.ro Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:59:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3ED8B53A.330.4BDD41@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.11) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: Mail message body X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: gdm2-2.4.1.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:59:29 -0000 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