Date: 25 Jul 2003 00:35:33 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Zhang, Peng" <pzhang@hsph.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with gdm Message-ID: <1059107732.353.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1059106991.345.8.camel@pzhang> References: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0307242340530.4044@hsph.harvard.edu> <1059105455.353.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1059106991.345.8.camel@pzhang>
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On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 00:23, Zhang, Peng wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:57, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:53, Peng Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I just used cvsup to upgrade my system to 4.8 stable. Now I have problem
> > > with gdm. When I have logged in as other user, I will log in as root. That
> > > happens when I automatically start gdm after booting. But if I start gdm
> > > myself after boot, I won't have this problem. I don't know why. Does
> > > somebody have the same problem before?
> >
> > Nope. GDM 2 works fine for me on 4.8-STABLE if it's started out of
> > ${X11BASE}/etc/rc.d.
>
> There is a gdm.sh.sample file in this directory. You mean you start it
> yourself or put this script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
GDM 2 cannot be started from /etc/ttys (as the pkg-message states). You
need to copy this script to /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh, then run:
/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start
This will happen automatically at boot time.
>
> And the gdm entry in my computer is:
> gdm:*:92:92:GNOME Display Manager:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
Good, this is what it should be.
Joe
>
> > Do you have any console messages or other errors
> > to indicate what's going on? What does your gdm user entry look like?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Peng
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