On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:48:44PM -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:17, stan wrote: > > I cvsup'd today (main and ports), then did a portupgrade -aRR, and now I > > can't get loged intot a session using gdm. > > > > I've rebooted the machine, and blown awa ~/.g[cn]* in my user home > > directory. Still no luck. I tried the "Gnome failsafe" session, still no > > luck. Looks like it doesn't even _try_ to start Gnome, and I get a console > > message about > > > > gdm_slave_session_start: Execution of PostLogin script returned > 0. Aborting. > > > Heh... same thing happened to me. Here is what you need to do: > > cd into /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm. There you find your gdm.conf. After the > cvsup, you have (or have a newer version of) factory-gdm.conf. A > comparison showed wha'ts missing. Go ahead and edit gdm.conf. Search for > "PostSessionScriptDir". You should see a path assigned to it. You should > also see a definition of "PreSessionScriptDir". What you don't see is > "PostLoginScriptDir". Go ahead and add to that section following line: > > PostLoginScriptDir=/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/PostLogin/ > > Then restart gdm ("/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh stop" and > "/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start") and you should be good to go. > > Hope this helps,
Indeed it did! Thanks for the help on this. BTW, out of curoisity, Did I need to delete the ~/.g[nc]* filles/directories? If I had not would they have been auto upgraded? Looking foward to playing with Gnome 2.4, hope it's a step back twoard 1.4 from 2.2, which I loathe. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"