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whot

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Registered: 2005-03-13

Posts: 18

"Cannot execute /opt/gnome/bin/gdm" after upgrade

Upgraded 490.2 MBs and rebooted into console.  Was expecting to reboot to GDM.  I get the following error 'INIT: cannot execute "/opt/gnome/bin/gdm"
Also after 5 minutes I get the following error message,  'INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes'.

I looked around and found gdm in /opt/gnome/sbin. I typed gdm and the login manager appears and life is good.

When I installed gdm, much prior to the upgrade, I followed the WIKI on 'Adding a login mananger to automatically boot on startup'.  I used the "alternate method", option 5, "x:5:respawn:/opt/gnome/bin/gdm -nodaemon"  and everything worked fine.

Did gdm get moved from /opt/gnome/bin to /opt/gnome/sbin because of the upgrade?

Should I change /etc/inittab to be .../opt/gnome/sbin/gdm ?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: "Cannot execute /opt/gnome/bin/gdm" after upgrade

It's in /opt/gnome/sbin now.

iLLucionist

Member

From: Groningen, Netherlands

Registered: 2005-09-09

Posts: 18

Re: "Cannot execute /opt/gnome/bin/gdm" after upgrade

Put the gdm-daemon in your /etc/rc.conf as following:

DAEMONS="(...) gdm (...)"

This should do the trick.

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