I have a different problem with GDM2. I am running the latest development kernels. Unfortunately, the way shrmem works has been changed. Now, prebuilt GDM packages give me executables that crash when I run them. I am left attempting to get GDM2 to run after building and installing it from CVS source.
The problem I have is that I cannot seem to get the Xauth stuff to work. I have added the requisite entries to /etc/pam.d/gdm, I have the /var/gdm directory correctly configured, permissions and ownershipwise. I am totally flumoxed. I have tried for over a day to get the damn thing to work, to no avail. I've tried setting the various "dir" prefixes to make sure all my settings were being found, but that hasn't helped. I must say, a fairly obvious "fix" that would seem to me to be obvious would be to have the installation proceedure check which distribution was being used (at least for Mandrake, SUSE, RedHat, Debian) and then install the various pieces in the same places that the packages for those distributions use. It just seems that setting up GDM is harder than it needs to be (comments in the gdm2/INSTALL notwithstanding). Miles On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > I've just upgrade from Debian 2.1 to unstable, and i have > everything working except gdm. X comes up, and i can see that > /etc/gdm/Init/Default is being run because the xsetroot command > there turns the background blue, but this script does not > complete because the xterm it's supposed to run never appears. > Then X dies. This happens about 5 more times, and then i'm left > with X running, along with my xterm and gdmlogin. gdm is no > longer running at this point. gdmlogin reads in my username and > password, but then disappears, but both X and the xterm are still > running. I have to ctrl-alt-backspace it. > > Attached are the relevant parts of /var/log/syslog and the only > two files i've modified from the default debian install, > /etc/gdm/Init/Default and /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. > > -- > Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. > Buy. And be happy." > --OMM (THX 1138) >