No users in gdm

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mathk

Hi,

I have install gnome with gdm on virtualBox.

But when gdm prompt for login it faied to log me.
Also there is no users in the list.

I have /proc mounted.

Any suggestion?
Thanks
 
Normally loaded.

Here my /etc/rc.conf

cat /etc/rc.conf

Code: 
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Jun  5 10:13:58 2010
# Created: Sat Jun  5 10:13:58 2010
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="mathkfreebsd"
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
keymap="us.iso"
moused_enable="YES"
sshd_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
system_tools_backends_enable="YES"
 
Yup strange.

I might not have install gnome properly maybe.

So /proc is well mounted:

Code: 
# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    494766  313492  141694    69%    /
devfs               1       1       0   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s1e    487790      20  448748     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f   8277292 6155868 1459242    81%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1d    966894  117140  772404    13%    /var
procfs              4       4       0   100%    /proc

Any one know what log to look to debug it?
Thanks
 
Me too

Yep, same situation here.

The screen shows only a button "Log in" which leads back to itself. No way to input a username or password.

And proc is mounted and hald and dbus are running.

I also tried xfce with the same result. I tried [cmd=]pkg_add -r kde4[/cmd] and the installation failed with tons of error messages.

This is a freshly-installed vanilla 8.1. I had similar problems with 8.0.

The workaround is to disable gdm in /etc/rc.conf, reboot, log in the plain way, enable gdm, make sure "/usr/local/bin/gnome-session" is in ~/.xinitrc, invoke [cmd=]startx[/cmd] and wait a while. It's awkward, but this is the only way I've found to get any desktop environment with 8.0 or 8.1.

I didn't have these problems with 7.* or 6.* or 5.*.
 
I had this problem with GDM from gnome-package about one year ago and solved it with a new build of GDM from ports. So, I don't use this chaotic gnome stuff yet and cannot say if this is helpful. Just a try.
 
Code: 
# pkg_add -r xorg
# pkg_add -r gnome2
# echo "proc /proc porcfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
in /etc/rc.conf
Code: 
gnome_enable="YES"
in /etc/hosts
Code: 
127.0.0.1       yourhostname
does the job for me (no need to add dbus and hald) after reboot. I don't run VirtualBox, though.
 
Yes, thanks.

Hey, thanks for all the tips, guys! Alas, I've already done all of them.

renice: I've had better luck with packages than ports lately. Ports builds seem to be increasingly plagued with mysterious version-skew problems. My attempts under 8.0 used ports and it went so badly that I settled on packages for 8.1.

ahavatar: I've done all those things, except I used gdm_enable rather than gnome_enable. My experience in the past was that gnome_enable opens a Pandora's Box.

Hinata: Yes, there are several users including myself.

SirDice: Yes. I've rebooted many times.
 
mathk said:
Hi,

I have install gnome with gdm on virtualBox.

But when gdm prompt for login it faied to log me.
Also there is no users in the list.

I have /proc mounted.

Any suggestion?
Thanks
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I try to configure GDM to show some effort to let me login for couple of hours. Then I gave up GDM fuc*up and now I'm using KDM and have choice which desktop environment to login.
Works perfect
HTH

P.S. I'm using FreeBSD8.1-RELEASE guest on Windows7 host in VirtualBox 3.2.10
 
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