Re: gdm and kdm problems.

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Desmond Chapman wrote:

> If there is already a soltuion to my problem, please point me in the right 
> direction.
> I've tried to enable xdm through both the rc.conf and ttys files; the result 
> has been a login that freezes with a block, widgits dialogue on the block, and 
> a terminal at the bottom right corner.
> FreeBSD has a usr/local but that doesn't exist on my NetBSD installation.
> Problems: xdm won't work properly and gdm- along with gnome-session- doesn't 
> configure.
> I have an instance of NetBSD-4.3 i386 installed on my machine.

        Is this xdm from pkgsrc? Assuming so, what happens if you just
        login to the console as root and then run xdm by hand?
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