Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:42:56 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: gdm, RELENG_6 update Message-ID: <43B5A9E0.3090605@freebsd.org>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE09C00C9CFFAEBA4CD382EDA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In case someone else sees this problem: I updated a couple of i386 machines from RELENG_6 around the December 12 timeframe to RELENG_6 as of today. When I was done, I rebooted and discovered that gdm wasn't getting any of my keystrokes, so I couldn't log in. Random search engine flailing didn't help me much, but I did notice r1.63 of ports/x11/gdm/Makefile, which reads: > Seems -CURRENT needs a few tweaks to get gdm starting correctly. First, > we need to depend on LOGIN and cleanvar in our rc.d script, plus, we need > to enable VTAllocation. I portupgraded to gdm-2.8.0.7_1 to try to get this fix but it didn't help because updating the port (rightly so) won't touch the installed gdm.conf file. It turns out that I needed to manually edit /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf and set the following two lines (uncommenting them if necessary...I assume that anyone reading this is able to find similar-looking lines in this file and do the right thing): FirstVT=9 VTAllocation=true All works well now. I suppose a somewhat faster way to do this would be to copy factory-gdm.conf (in the same directory) to gdm.conf, since I had not made any changes to gdm.conf. Hope this helps someone... Bruce. PS. I don't know exactly what changed on RELENG_6 to make it work like HEAD. --------------enigE09C00C9CFFAEBA4CD382EDA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtang2MoxcVugUsMRAvbSAJ9WMed+lFQl/Vt8CNLpJzmczPuRPQCg+2fi WhfHcqllHO2C/FNOZzSrl8Y= =+Yej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE09C00C9CFFAEBA4CD382EDA--
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