Date: 07 May 2003 22:40:05 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GDM2 no longer works with -current Message-ID: <1052361604.68744.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030508020559.GA27322@gforce.johnson.home> References: <20030507032722.GA50343@gforce.johnson.home> <20030507170618.Q62863@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030508020559.GA27322@gforce.johnson.home>
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--=-BNce31iE4AjJmUOIXXIu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 22:05, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:07:54PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:27:22PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > It seems that gdm2 no longer works with my -current system. I > > > > just updated gdm2 and I just rebuilt -current. > > > > > > > > FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Tue May 6 00:10:49 CDT 2003 root@gforc= e.johnson.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GFORCE > > > > > > > > I turned on debugging output in gdm.conf but I do not see anything > > > > that jumps out. The following is a little suspicious: > > > > > > > > gdm_server_start: Temporary server failure (:0) > > > > > > > > The X server does work. The gdm-binary process gets started, > > > > the ugly black and white hash screen pops up for a few seconds > > > > and then goes back to the console. The gdm-binary process stays > > > > around and I have to kill it with kill -9. > > > > > > > > Could this be a problem with pam? I believe I saw some changes to > > > > the gdm file in /etc/pam.d. > > > > > > Unfortunatelly, I can only confirm that it failes for me as well :( > > > > > > FreeBSD timur.home.bat.ru 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Mon May= 5 19:49:0 > > > 5 CEST 2003 root@timur.home.bat.ru:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP = i386 > > > > > > PORTNAME=3D gdm2 > > > PORTVERSION=3D 2.4.1.4 > > > > > > With the previous version(2.4.1.3, I belive), I got gdm login > > > prompt, but wasn't able to enter any character... But I suspect, > > > that was caused by default 'Standart' section with the X server call > > > like: > > > > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 > > > > > > when I have 10 virtual consoles. I'll check this as soon as I'll > > > revert to the previous version. > > > > > > For the current version I have exactly the same probles, as Glenn > > > described :( > > > > I just installed gdm-2.4.1.4 on my -CURRENT machine, and > > it works fine. I had to merge in some of the new gdm.conf > > settings, but so far, I haven't seen any lockups or crashes. > > If you're experiencing problems, make sure you're starting > > gdm from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh, and try copying > > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf to /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. >=20 > I always start it from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh and I already had > merged in changes from factory-gdm.conf. I went ahead and copied it too > just to be sure. Still no joy. >=20 > Joe, is you -CURRENT a clean install? Mine has been through hell the > last week or so because of the ffs:free bug and I am wondering if my > system has gremlins lying around. Mine has been -CURRENT for over a year now. It's been through hell, a bad loader, _and_ blkfree. I've run so many single user fsck's I've lost count. I've also had some bad FS corruption which made me zarch my marcus account, and let things get recreated. It couldn't hurt to do a portupgrade -Rf gdm2 to see if that helps. Joe >=20 > >=20 > > Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-BNce31iE4AjJmUOIXXIu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+ucOEb2iPiv4Uz4cRAhiEAJ9Xjy/+0h5IEbQJnLvo6hkU9e49eACeL6TX B2gWiP8SXv71HnvlL1Op5O8= =nVlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BNce31iE4AjJmUOIXXIu--
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