Date: 09 Aug 2002 18:57:28 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug/problem with gdm-2.2.5.5 Message-ID: <1028933848.55175.38.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <E6AEF8B4-ABEA-11D6-B6C3-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> References: <E6AEF8B4-ABEA-11D6-B6C3-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com>
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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 18:54, Mark Edwards wrote:
> On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>=20
> > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 18:43, Mark Edwards wrote:
> >> I think I've tracked down a fairly annoying bug with the gdm port.
> >>
> >> I install the port on top of the full gnome install, having already=20
> >> created
> >> a gdm user/group with id's of 92 (I need to do this because ID 91 gets
> >> taken by the mail/mailman port).
> >
> > This is no longer needed. I committed a patch to use 92 across the
> > board.
>=20
> When did you do this? I just cvsup'd my ports tree two days ago, and gdm=
=20
> refused to install unless I first made a user/group gdm with 92 myself.
Five minutes ago.
>=20
> >>
> >> Upon first boot, it is possible to run gdmconfig from the gdm login pa=
nel.
> >> However, after a change is made to the configuration, running gdmco=
nfig
> >> results in a freeze which requires killing the gdmconfig process from
> >> another machine.
> >>
> >> What seems to be happening is gdmconfig is changing this line from=20
> >> gdm.conf:
> >>
> >> Willing=3D/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/Xwilling
> >>
> >> to:
> >>
> >> Willing=3D
> >>
> >> If that config line is blank, gdmconfig will crash. If I replace the =
line
> >> with the original, gdmconfig boots again, but changing the configurati=
on
> >> results in the line getting messed-up again.
> >>
> >> This didn't used to happen with an earlier version of the port. Is th=
is
> >> just a bug in gdm? Is this a bug in the port?
> >
> > My Willing line is blank, and I don't see any problems. How do you
> > start gdm?
>=20
> From my /etc/ttys:
>=20
> ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on
>=20
>=20
> I've also been able to crash gdmconfig by changing
>=20
> GtkRC=3D/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc
>=20
> to
>=20
> GtkRC=3D/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Metal/gtk/gtkrc
>=20
> Changing it back to "Default" stopped the crashing. I don't know what=20
> could be different on my end, but this stuff is 100% repeatable.
Can you try to start gdm from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d with the following
script:
#!/bin/sh
PREFIX=3D/usr/X11R6
case "$1" in
start)
${PREFIX}/bin/gdm
;;
stop)
/usr/bin/killall gdm 2>/dev/null
;;
*)
echo "$0 start | stop"
;;
esac
Let me know if this fixes things for you.
Joe
>=20
> --
> Mark Edwards
> San Francisco, CA
>=20
>=20
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