Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:03:10 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Klaus_Friis_=D8stergaard?= <farremosen@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS? Message-ID: <be36dc210901300703s10fe7f37y808c265d723ff561@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <be36dc210901300508l4f9ef8e6ta8f454f1513004fd@mail.gmail.com> References: <be36dc210901300508l4f9ef8e6ta8f454f1513004fd@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/1/30 Klaus Friis =D8stergaard <farremosen@gmail.com>: > Hi > > I have an amd64 box with FreeBSD 7.0, just upgrade to gnome 2.24. > > No I have a problem with getting gdm to start. > > I have trieded to: > make deinstall > > results in problem with deleting following directories: > > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/share/gdm' > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory > '/usr/local/etc/gdm/PreSession' > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory > '/usr/local/etc/gdm/PostSession' > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/etc/gdm/Ini= t' > > Should I just manually remove these directories? > > recompiling and installing gdm again when I try to start gdm > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start > > I get following: > > ** (gdm-binary:5267): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayMana= ger > > ** (gdm-binary:5267): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out > > When I run sockstat I can see that gdm-binary is not running. > > I have googled and found some mentioning something about the dbus > system and programs not running as root, but how do I proceed. > > any help apriciated > > By the way, I need this box as a server where thin clients connect to > via xdmcp and get to login via gdm on the server. > > All I did was upgrading from Gnome 2.22 to 2.24 via ports. > > /klaus I tried to remove the directories that was not removed by deinstall manually, and then installed again, now no complaints about not being able to uninstall I can now start gdm again, with out any complaints, but when I run sockstat I cannot see gdm-binary active nor any listen on udp 177. Any suggestions? In /usr/local/etc/gdm/custum.conf I have only [xdmcp] Enable=3Dtrue Port=3D177 /Klaus
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