Date: 08 Jul 2002 18:41:31 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with gdm2 Message-ID: <1026168091.364.25.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1026167612.422.3.camel@blue.mcneil.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 18:33, Sean McNeil wrote: > Hi gentlemen (and ladies), > > I am having trouble with gdm2. It will start eating up a great deal of > CPU and will freeze after entering my username. Here is what I've found > as far as packaging: > > If I deinstall both gdm and gdm and then install gdm2 and reboot, I get > the problem. > > If I install gdm and then kill all the gdm processes it works. > > If I install gdm and then gdm2 it works until I do a reboot. > > Has anyone else experienced this? I only have gdm in my pam.conf, do I > need gdm2 as well or does it auth as gdm? No, entries for gdm should be fine. The problem may be solved by starting gdm from a shell script instead of /etc/ttys. Attached is the shell script I use. The script lives in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d. If you find that this still doesn't help, make sure you have the latest version of pango installed at rev _1. Joe > > I would like to get this resolved. > > Cheers, > Sean > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] #!/bin/sh PREFIX=/usr/X11R6 case "$1" in start) ${PREFIX}/bin/gdm ;; stop) /usr/bin/killall gdm 2>/dev/null ;; *) echo "$0 start | stop" ;; esachome | help
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