gdm broke - sort of - after gnome move to /usr

crouse · 2007-04-23 20:06:41

I noticed this while pacman was doing the update

Regenerating GConf database...
done.
/tmp/pacman-gItfSw/.INSTALL: line 16: etc/gdm/custom.conf: No such file or directory
upgrading gdm... done.

Stupid question, but shouldn't that be "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" not "etc/gdm/custom.conf" ?

Regardless, my gdm didn't work as it did before, my settings were lost and the themes were not moved over.
So I moved them.
cp -R /opt/gnome/share/gdm/themes/* /usr/share/gdm/themes/

Edited my /etc/inittab ..... one line edit

x:5:respawn:/opt/gnome/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
CHANGED TO:
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

Had to manually edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf
Changed these lines....... default was blank

[daemon]
RemoteGreeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter
Greeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter
[security]
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
[gui]
[greeter]
DefaultRemoteWelcome=false
RemoteWelcome=Welcome to Arch Linux
GraphicalTheme=ArchLinux
DefaultWelcome=false
[chooser]

ALSO: NEED TO FIX /etc/rc.d/gdm script ........ still points to /opt I haven't got that far yet, still updating my machines.

crouse · 2007-04-23 20:15:37

Looks like only one line in /etc/rc.d/gdm script needs fixed

From:

PID=`pidof -o %PPID /opt/gnome/sbin/gdm-binary`

CHANGE TO:

PID=`pidof -o %PPID /usr/sbin/gdm-binary`

at least I'm thinking that line should have changed also, it gives me errors if you remove /opt/gnome/* and don't change it.

Snowman · 2007-04-23 22:49:40

It seems that these issues are fixed in gdm 2.18.1-4. If not, submit a bug report.

crouse · 2007-04-24 03:13:24

Thanks Snowman, another issue of my rsyncing to a slow mirror ....... I'm using

[root@vistakiller3 ~]# pacman -Si gdm
Repository        : extra
Name              : gdm
Version           : 2.18.1-2
Groups            : gnome-extra
Provides          : None
Depends On        : dbus-glib>=0.7.3 gksu libdmx libgnomecanvas>=2.14.0-2
                    librsvg>=2.16.1 pam popt scrollkeeper tcp_wrappers>=7.6
                    xorg-xsm
Conflicts With    : None
Replaces          : None
Size (compressed) : 4077577
Description       : Gnome Display Manager (a reimplementation of xdm)
MD5 Sum           : f6dcbd904781b90c5ec8fee58025082b

[root@vistakiller3 ~]#

Looked up in my rsync logging, and found

Rsync Started on:
Mon Apr 23 02:01:01 CDT 2007
~~~~~~~ Current Repo Sync ~~~~~~~

 Welcome to distro.ibiblio.org's rsync server!

 You may mirror any of our distributions by using the "distros"
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 rsync -avr distro.ibiblio.org::distros/bluelinux/ /local/path/

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receiving file list ... done
os/i686/
os/i686/setup/
os/x86_64/
os/x86_64/setup/
wrote 100 bytes  read 42217 bytes  12090.57 bytes/sec
total size is 2608616831  speedup is 61644.65
~~~~~~~ Extra Repo Sync ~~~~~~~

 Welcome to distro.ibiblio.org's rsync server!

 You may mirror any of our distributions by using the "distros"
 module.  Simply append the name of the distribution you would
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 rsync -avr distro.ibiblio.org::distros/bluelinux/ /local/path/

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 http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-mirrors

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receiving file list ... done
os/i686/
~~~~~~~~~snip~~~~~~~~~~~~
os/i686/gdl-0.7.3-2.pkg.tar.gz
os/i686/gdm-2.18.1-2.pkg.tar.gz
os/i686/gedit-2.18.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
~~~~~~~~~snip~~~~~~~~~~~~

Rsync Finished on:
Mon Apr 23 02:21:36 CDT 2007

Apr 23 02:21:36 CDT 2007 <<<<
Still waiting on ibiblio to update again...... I assume ibilio updates only once per day .....

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#1 2007-04-23 20:06:41

gdm broke - sort of - after gnome move to /usr

#2 2007-04-23 20:15:37

Re: gdm broke - sort of - after gnome move to /usr

#3 2007-04-23 22:49:40

Re: gdm broke - sort of - after gnome move to /usr

#4 2007-04-24 03:13:24

Re: gdm broke - sort of - after gnome move to /usr

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