Re: GDM will not work.



Lowell Gilbert wrote:
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
necessarily get much help here (in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd).
See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...
[followups redirected accordingly]

Joe <v92c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


At boot I get this message:
gdm_config_parse: Can't find the gdm user (gdm). Aborting!
I did add gdm_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.
I also ran /usr/X11R6/sbin/gdmsetup. This is on FreeBSD 6.0, Gnome 2.10.
Any ideas?


Well, the first idea is that maybe gdm can't start because you don't
have the "gdm" user on your system.


The port creates that user for you automatically, so maybe you should
go back and use the port instead of whatever method you installed gdm
with.



I installed gdm when I installed FreeBSD 6.0 from CD. Using the port did correct the problem. Thanks.
.




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