Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:45:57 +0000 From: "C. Delnooz" <c.delnooz@home.nl> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start Message-ID: <1082576756.41008.3.camel@morreion.wizards.nl>
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Hi all, recently I installed the Gnome 2.6 port on my machine, and everything works just fine when I start X via startx. However, when I try to start gdm (using /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh) as display manager i get an error pop-up with the following text: "The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will try to use another one." This repeats a few times until I get the chance to kill the gdm process. Checking the messages log, I see the following warnings: Apr 21 17:27:13 morreion gdmgreeter[541]: greeter_parse_config: No configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults. Apr 21 17:27:51 morreion gdmgreeter[567]: greeter_parse_config: No configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults. These confuse me because gdm.conf is exactly at the specified location and it's world readable so gdm should have no problem at all reading the file. I tried to turn on the extra debugging in gdm.conf but since it won't read the darn file, I won't get extra debug output. I'm running FBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 and the latest gnome ports. I've no clue what's going wrong, so any help would be appreciated. Regards, Chris
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