From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 00:15:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF91316A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpq1.home.nl (smtpq1.home.nl [213.51.128.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6750143D60 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.delnooz@home.nl) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=37828 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGYQv-0005Fb-Ai for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:15:41 +0200 Received: from [10.100.3.4] (port=41291 helo=mail.home.nl) by smtp1.home.nl with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGYQs-0006Ic-79 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:15:38 +0200 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.12 (webedge20-101-197-20030912) X-Originating-IP: [134.188.150.80] From: Chris Delnooz To: Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 9:15:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Message-Id: <20040422071542.6750143D60@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Antw: Re: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:15:42 -0000 > >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. > Is that a file from a previous version of gdm? > Maybe the syntax has changed, and the error message is just\ > misleading. > > The gdm package/ port comes with a sample ... > > >pkg_info -L gdm2-2.6.0.0_1 | grep gdm.conf > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf > > which you could copy in to place and see if that works better. it can't be an old version because i did a fresh install on this machine. I diffed the factory-gdm.conf with gdm.conf, no difference; I copied factory-gdm.conf to gdm.conf anyway, but i get the same results. Any help on how to tackle this is appreciated Regards Chris