trouble starting gdm

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:20, Adriel Cardenas G. wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I've just make a fresh install from a CD, and made a portupgrade -ra
> (after update via cvsup the ports three), then using the script (gdm.sh)
> try to start gdm but nothing happened. So I tried to start it manually,
> but nothing happened, although when I enter gdm again I get a message
> telling me that gdm is already running, and it appears to be running but
> there's no screen on ttyv8. This is no XFree86 related problem, due X 
> work perfectly when I start it via startx.

Do you get any errors in the X logs in /var/log?  Have you tried
reinstalling gdm?  Are you using the default gdm.conf?

Joe

> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Adriel
> 
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD unxstar 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 21 22:54:24
> CDT 2003     root at unxstar:/usr/src/sys/compile/UNXSTARIV  i386
> 
> 
> # ls -l /var/run/ | grep gdm
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        4 Jul 20 22:17 gdm.pid
> 
> 
> 
> 
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