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Date:      26 Mar 2003 11:31:01 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Matthew Donadio <m.p.donadio@ieee.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 4.8-RC, XFree86 4.3.0, and GDM2
Message-ID:  <1048696261.323.26.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <3E81D408.169FDED@ieee.org>
References:  <3E81D408.169FDED@ieee.org>

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On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 11:23, Matthew Donadio wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> The following was posted to freebsd-stable, and several other users seem
> to be having the same problem.  I also submited a problem report about
> it, but I have not heard anything back from the FreeBSD team, so I
> decided to try this email address.  This is a non-critical problem since
> there is a workaround, but I want to be sure it is taken care of.
>=20
> I am having some trouble with GDM2 and I was wondering if anyone can
> either confirm the problem or shed some light on it.
>=20
> I track the STABLE tree (release=3Dcvs tag=3DRELENG_4) and ports tree
> (release=3Dcvs tag=3D.) with cvsup.  I held off a little while to upgrade=
 my
> system to XFree86 4.3.0, but did the build last night.
>=20
> I brought everything up to date with cvsup, rebuilt world and kernel,
> installed, rebooted, and then used portupgrade (portupgrade -rR XFree86)
> to rebuild X.  I also used portupgrade -rR to bring some gnome2
> libraries uptodate.  All of the builds were successful.
>=20
> uname -a says I am running 4.8-RC pkg_version has '=3D' for everything.
>=20
> Users and root can do a startx to start gnome2 sessions.  Everything
> works fine.
>=20
> If I enable gdm2, then root can login, but users can't.  I get an error
> message saying that the session lasted less than 10-seconds, and to
> check .xsession-errors.  They can't login with the failsafe modes,
> either.
>=20
> .xsession-errors is empty
> /var/log/messages has a error: gdm[XXX]: run_session_child: Could not
> open ~/.xsession-errors
>=20
> I then created a new user, and was able to login with gdm, but I got
> root's session (shells started in /root, Nautilus brought up /root,
> etc).
>=20
> I renamed ~/.gnome2/gdm for an old user and the same thing happened.
>=20
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?  Is this a bug?

I replied to this on Sun Mar 23 19:40:04 2003.  In the future, please
check for replies before resending.

I have never had a problem logging in as a normal user with gdm or
gdm2.  How are you creating these users?  That is, what are the perms on
their home directories?  What is your test user's uid?  How are you
starting gdm?  What does ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/gdm-binary report?  How
about /usr/X11R6/bin/gdmlogin?  Can you send your /etc/pam.conf file?

Joe

>=20
> Thanks.
--=20
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