Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:59:13 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdmflexiserver crashes X Message-ID: <1071809953.529.1.camel@compass> In-Reply-To: <1071802604.58179.20.camel@compass> References: <1071802604.58179.20.camel@compass>
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Apologize for the dupe, qmail was acting up. On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 22:59, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Hi everyone, I've been running into issues when trying to run > gdmflexiserver or gdmflexiserver -xnest with gnome 2.4.1 from ports. > When I run gdmflexiserver the monitor flickers like it is taking me to a > new screen but the monitor stays dark. I have to ctrl+alt+f9 back to my > original display. If I run gdmflexiserver -xnest then X and gdm > actually crash and drop me to a console. Using gdmflexiserver -xnest > also produces the following error in /var/log/messages: > > Dec 18 21:34:56 compass gdm[57837]: GDM file gdm.c: line 2852 (N/A): > Cannot run setegid to 92 > > > I see that the gdm binaries are not setgid and are owned by root. I can > run both commands fine if I am logged into gnome as root which leads me > to believ that this is a permission problem. > > [tom@compass tom]$ ls -al /usr/X11R6/bin/|grep gdm > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 264 Dec 15 00:41 gdm* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 215916 Dec 15 00:41 gdm-binary* > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 Dec 15 00:41 gdmXnest@ -> > gdmXnestchooser > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 43048 Dec 15 00:41 gdmXnestchooser* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 69568 Dec 15 00:41 gdmchooser* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36584 Dec 15 00:41 gdmflexiserver* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 130392 Dec 15 00:41 gdmgreeter* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 102804 Dec 15 00:41 gdmlogin* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30592 Dec 15 00:41 gdmphotosetup* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 69960 Dec 15 00:41 gdmsetup* > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1664 Dec 15 00:41 gdmthemetester* > > I have only had this problem after building gnome 2.4.1 from ports. I > did not have this problem in gnome 2.4.0 and this machine's current > incarnation never had gnome 2.4.0 installed since I first thought this > was a problem with the port upgrade and something from the old port > conflicting with the new port. (Still getting used to ports here.) I > have attached the log from XFree that corresponds to the crash. Thanks > for any help. > > Tom > > (P.S. While I was looking for the correct log to attach I noticed that I > have :0.log, :20.log, XFree86.0.log, and XFree86.20.log. Can someone > explain the naming convention? Why do I have two 0 and two 20 logs?) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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