From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 22:12:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org 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 86FDA16A4E2 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 22:12:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from racinej@mcmaster.ca) Received: from sigma957.cis.mcmaster.ca (sigma957.CIS.mcmaster.ca [130.113.64.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B132243DA9 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 22:11:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racinej@mcmaster.ca) Received: from Gorash7.UTS.McMaster.CA (Gorash7.UTS.McMaster.CA [130.113.196.61]) by sigma957.cis.mcmaster.ca (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k86MBdMf011154 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:11:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cgpsrv2.cis.mcmaster.ca (univmail.CIS.mcmaster.ca [130.113.64.46]) by Gorash7.UTS.McMaster.CA (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k86MAwnW018151 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:10:58 -0400 Received: from pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca ([130.113.139.86] verified) by cgpsrv2.cis.mcmaster.ca (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 138642958 for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:11:27 -0400 From: Jeffrey Racine To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: McMaster University Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:11:19 -0400 Message-Id: <1157580679.37083.26.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version-Mac: 4.7.1.128075, Antispam-Engine: 2.4.0.264935, Antispam-Data: 2006.9.6.143443 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__C230066_P5 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' X-Spam-Flag: NO Subject: gdm help please... X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: racinej@mcmaster.ca List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:12:20 -0000 Hi. I am running releng 6.1 with gnome 2.12 on my notebook. I was experiencing problems with gnome 2.14 due likely to multiple portupgrades over the past year some of which did not go smoothly. One symptom was that gdm was no longer working (I do have gdm_enable="YES" in my rc.conf etc.). Therefore, I decided this morning to remove all ports and do a quick reinstall of gnome via pkg_add -r gnome2 which installed gnome 2.12. All appears to be working except gdm still does not work. There is nothing in any log file in /var/log to help, and /var/log/gdm is empty. I can run gdm manually as root with /usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm, it just does not want to come up at boot time for me for some odd reason. Any suggestion as to where to begin debugging would be most welcome. I have spent hours to no avail. Many thanks for your help and suggestions. -- Jeff -- Professor J. S. Racine Phone: (905) 525 9140 x 23825 Department of Economics FAX: (905) 521-8232 McMaster University e-mail: racinej@mcmaster.ca 1280 Main St. W.,Hamilton, URL: http://www.economics.mcmaster.ca/racine/ Ontario, Canada. L8S 4M4 `The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance'