Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:39:56 +0000 From: David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdm, RELENG_6 update Message-ID: <43B5B73C.7030500@jetnet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1135979411.63079.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <43B5A9E0.3090605@freebsd.org> <1135979411.63079.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 13:42 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > >>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. I have the same problem on my -CURRENT machine. >> >>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. > I'll look at the files when I get home. david
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