Re: GDM errors with utmp & FreeBSD 4.2...

["Martin K. Petersen" <mkp linuxcare com>]

>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Rothwell <erothwell callgtn com> writes:

Erik> I'm getting this really odd set of errors with GDM... basically,
Erik> when run as a daemon or from init when GDM logs in a user it
Erik> writes to utmp that the user is logged in on /dev/display
Erik> (i.e. /dev/:0 or /dev/:1) which -- of course -- do not exist.

Hmmm. GDM does not write utmp. Ever.

Perhaps your /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession or PostSession scripts do it?

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