GDM 2.4 Problems

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 01:36, John McAree wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I see there have been some issues with people using GDM 2.4... well I'm
> having a different one!
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 5.1 on a 2nd hand laptop a few weeks ago. Gnome 2.2
> installed from ports fine, and I was able to enable GDM by using the
> startup script /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh.
> 
> Last week I decided to format and reinstall. I cvsup'd my ports almost
> immediately after install, and installed the Gnome2 port, which turned
> out to be Gnome 2.4 (which I had read wasn't going to be in ports until
> October...) Anyway, when running GDM (version 2.4.4.1), either from the
> startup script, or directly from the command line as root, it segfaults
> (good ol' sig 11). It seems to start running, then dies... the X server
> starts, but the login screen doesn't appear, then gdm segfaults and I'm
> left back at my console prompt. X works fine otherwise, I can launch a
> Gnome 2.4 session with 'startx'. I've also tried deleting my gdm.conf
> file and using the factory one to no avail.
> 
> I'd appreciate anyone who can shed some light on this!

Did you read the Known Issues here:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/knownissues.html

Joe

> 
> Regards,
> 
> John.
> 
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