Help with gnome2-lite + GDM.

[drp]

I installed gnome2-lite and GDM, and I added:

gdm_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"

to /etc/rc.conf. When GDM starts up, there are no user options and nothing that I can do to login. The window in the middle has nothing but a line through it from left to right and above that a monitor icon and basic information about the system. I can't remember the first thing it says, but after that it just displays "FreeBSD" and the release number, and that's it. What else should I install or do?

 

[vivek]

Did you created ~/.xsession file? See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x11-wm.html

 

[drp]

I've made an .xinitrc file and I'm using $ startx It's been working, but I was going to just start GDM automatically at startup and log in from there, but it's like it's missing something. Like I said, no names are there to choose from to log in as. I'm only using my one user account and root, so there should be only one, but not even that's there. I don't know how to get it to recognize the choices or how to add a user to the list.

 

[SirDice]

Make sure procfs is mounted. Also make sure hald and dbus are running.

Gnome FAQ
HAL FAQ

 

[drp]

I've had "hald_enable" and "dbus_enable" in rc.conf for a while now, but procfs is not mounted.
Why is procfs not mentioned here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html
Where is it explained in the handbook or elsewhere what you need to do other than install linux_base? I haven't seen an explanation of this anywhere.

 

[SirDice]

Why is procfs not mentioned here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html

Because it's not needed for the linux compatibility layer.

Where is it explained in the handbook or elsewhere what you need to do other than install linux_base? I haven't seen an explanation of this anywhere.

You don't need linux_base for Gnome and/or GDM.

 

[kpa]

The procfs that gnome needs is not the same procfs that the Linux emulation stuff needs, for the FreeBSD procfs you use this in /etc/fstab:

proc    /proc   procfs  rw      0       0

And for Linux compatibility:

linproc        /usr/compat/linux/proc  linprocfs       rw      0       0

 

[drp]

Thanks for the help.