Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:30:56 +0000 From: "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Antw: Re: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start Message-ID: <BAY2-F19T33z4GwLXJX000226f6@hotmail.com>
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> > >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 from a previous versions, I did a complete new installation of >FBSD on this machine. I diff-ed the two and there were no differences. But >I went ahead and copied factory-gdm.conf to gdm.conf. No change, the same >error pop-up, the same warnings in the message log... > >I'm open for suggestions how to further tackle this... > Have you tried gdmsetup? Also, there is always kdm if you can't get it going. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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