GNOME Session not avaliable in GDM

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:45, David Vastine wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:45:26PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:07, James Pole wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > After doing a cvsup and a portuprade a few daya ago GDM now dosn't have
> > > GNOME in its session menu. Now whenever I login without choosing a
> > > session it always goes into Failsafe Xterm. In order for me to use GNOME
> > > at all, I have to manually select Failsafe GNOME each time I login using
> > > GDM.
> > > 
> > 
> > Copy /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf to
> > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf.  Note, this is discussed in the Known
> > Issues section at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> 
> 	I am also seeing this issue with a 5.1-CURRENT.  Copying the conf
> file did not help.  Gnome seems to run just fine, just gives the error
> about not being able to find a gnome session in the menu and then says
> it is logging into the failsafe session.  Any other ideas?  Something
> else I should look at?  Thanks.

Once you copy the default configuration file over, you need to reboot to
get gdm to restart properly.

Joe

> 
> David
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