From owner-freebsd-gnome Fri Aug 9 16:43:38 2002 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 37E3037B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com (dsl-64-130-38-189.telocity.com [64.130.38.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA9643E42 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@antsclimbtree.com) Received: from amore.antsclimbtree.com (amore.antsclimbtree.com [192.168.1.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g79NhWax000358; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@antsclimbtree.com) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:43:31 -0700 Subject: Re: Bug/problem with gdm-2.2.5.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org To: Joe Marcus Clarke From: Mark Edwards In-Reply-To: <1028933848.55175.38.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >> From my /etc/ttys: >> >> ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on >> >> >> I've also been able to crash gdmconfig by changing >> >> GtkRC=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc >> >> to >> >> GtkRC=/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/../themes/Metal/gtk/gtkrc >> >> Changing it back to "Default" stopped the crashing. I don't know what >> 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=/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 Sorry, I'm an idiot. I had the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The script gets me booted fine, but gdmconfig still freezes. By the way, when I run top after gdmconfig has frozen, I get: 331 root 64 0 8892K 5048K RUN 1:53 88.64% 88.43% gdmconfig gdmconfig just sits there hogging CPU. I dunno ... when I reinstalled gdm, I did it by: cd /usr/ports/x11/gdm sudo make deinstall sudo make clean install Did that perhaps not wipe my previous installs clean? -- Mark Edwards San Francisco, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message