From owner-freebsd-gnome Mon Jul 8 15:41:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F2737B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91A643E58 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.200] (vpn-client.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.200]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g68Mepp4065090; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:40:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: help with gdm2 From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Sean McNeil Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1026167612.422.3.camel@blue.mcneil.com> References: <1026167612.422.3.camel@blue.mcneil.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-qJrzZ0UaXOucNpNxKGax" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 08 Jul 2002 18:41:31 -0400 Message-Id: <1026168091.364.25.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-qJrzZ0UaXOucNpNxKGax Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --=-qJrzZ0UaXOucNpNxKGax Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=xserver.sh Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/x-sh; name=xserver.sh; charset=ISO8859-1 #!/bin/sh PREFIX=3D/usr/X11R6 case "$1" in start) ${PREFIX}/bin/gdm ;; stop) /usr/bin/killall gdm 2>/dev/null ;; *) echo "$0 start | stop" ;; esac --=-qJrzZ0UaXOucNpNxKGax-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message