Re: Much oddness

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:53:13PM +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> George wrote:
> 
> >The rh9 rpm is of a somewhat buggy version (anything not completely current
> >is somewhat buggy, and the only reason current is not buggy is because I
> >haven't yet noticed the bugs :)
> 
> Fair enough, it just seems odd that it's gone so horribly wrong for no 
> apparent reason after many months of faithful service :/
> 
> >The "..." means that something is going horribly wrong with the 
> >communication
> >between the greeter and daemon since "..." is the initial text in the text
> >entry (to get around an old GtkEntry vs GnomeCanvas bug I think).  It seems
> >like installation is all wankers what configure parameters are you using?
> 
> Nothing fancy, just "./configure --prefix=/usr"

Hmmm, should investigate with that.  In the meantime try:

--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 --localstatedir=/var --enable-console-helper --with-pam-prefix=/etc

That goes over the redhat installation.  Else things will be in wrong places.
The reason why I think your installation didn't work with the rh9 rpm
installed is that the pam stuff was not installed where pam expected it and
thus the need for --with-pam-prefix=/etc .  I suppose I never tried how it
will work without the pam service installed, I suppose it just complains to
syslog instead of properly telling the user on the display or console
that the installation is b0rk.

George

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