problem with gdm

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 00:23, Zhang, Peng wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:57, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:53, Peng Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > I just used cvsup to upgrade my system to 4.8 stable. Now I have problem
> > > with gdm. When I have logged in as other user, I will log in as root. That
> > > happens when I automatically start gdm after booting. But if I start gdm
> > > myself after boot, I won't have this problem. I don't know why. Does
> > > somebody have the same problem before?
> > 
> > Nope.  GDM 2 works fine for me on 4.8-STABLE if it's started out of
> > ${X11BASE}/etc/rc.d. 
> 
> There is a gdm.sh.sample file in this directory. You mean you start it
> yourself or put this script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d. 

GDM 2 cannot be started from /etc/ttys (as the pkg-message states).  You
need to copy this script to /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh, then run:

/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start

This will happen automatically at boot time.

> 
> And the gdm entry in my computer is:
> gdm:*:92:92:GNOME Display Manager:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin

Good, this is what it should be.

Joe

> 
> >  Do you have any console messages or other errors
> > to indicate what's going on?  What does your gdm user entry look like?
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Peng
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