Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:47:46 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Werner Lehmann" <elvis69@arcor.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM does not start anymore in gnome2.18 Message-ID: <op.ttqp9wb09aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <46695C55.6040601@arcor.de> References: <46695C55.6040601@arcor.de>
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:40:37 -0500, Werner Lehmann <elvis69@arcor.de> wrote: > I did a fresh install of FreeBSD6.2, Xorg7.2 and gnome 2.18 from the > 6-stable-packages, my xserver is properly configured, but when I type > "gdm" at the prompt as root (xserver not started), nothing happens, like > before in gnome 2.16 or 2.14, not even a message. It just looks like > this: > > # gdm > # > > The gdm daemon seems to be running though, because if you type "gdm" > again at the prompt, You get: > > # gdm > # GDM already running. Aborting! > > > Something must have changed with gdm in gnome 2.18, but that issue is > not covered in the gnome2.18 Installation Instructions. > I don't know how to start gdm/gnome now. > > I posted that question in bsdforums.org also and got the following > response so far: > > "Try to install gnome instead from packages from ports > Packages are not for 7.2 xorg yet so several problems may arrive." > > I don't know if that is true, as I want to believe that the > 6-stable-packages are coherent with each other. > > > Please help and update the Gnome Installation Instructions if/as needed. Try to check what is in ~/.xsession-errors .. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks, > > Werner -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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