Re: [gdm-list] How to setup gdm on a basic system

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:44 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish slb com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to use gdm on a very basic system using components compiled separately, "linux from scratch" 
> > > style using the 3.10.x version of the various gnome components.
> > >
> > > Although gdm starts, it does not start properly - there's no top panel, side panel, etc.
> > Same here, seems a permissions problem.
> In fact this error occurs even when gdm is started as root, which perhaps indicates something is needed in 
> terms of linux-pam/polkit rules for gdm, but if so, what?
> You can try to see if something on our project can help you. We do build gdm for slackware and there is 
> also a pam file for it.
> See here: 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/dropline-gnome/code/HEAD/tree/dbs/branches/DLG_3_10/scripts/gdm/

Thanks for the suggestion, I recompiled gdm, which did not change anything when run as a user, but when 
running gdm as root it appears to continually open virtual terminals until it runs out of terminals (see 
debug output below).

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gdm[13499]: Enabling debugging
gdm[13499]: Changing user:group to tc:staff
gdm[13499]: Successfully connected to D-Bus
gdm[13499]: GdmManager: GDM starting to manage displays
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: Adding display on seat /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: Reserving X display: 0
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayStore: Adding display /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_0 to store
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Managing display: /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_0
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: manage display
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Preparing display: /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_0
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: prepare display
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayAccessFile: creating xauth directory /var/run/gdm/auth-for-tc-XXXXXX
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayAccessFile: chowning /var/run/gdm/auth-for-tc-0ICsNA to 1001:50
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayAccessFile: creating /var/run/gdm/auth-for-tc-0ICsNA/database
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayAccessFile: chowning /var/run/gdm/auth-for-tc-0ICsNA/database to 1001:50
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayAccessFile: chmoding /var/run/gdm/auth-for-tc-0ICsNA to 0711
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: display status changed: 1
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Killing slave
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Running command: /usr/local/lib/gdm/gdm-simple-slave --display-id 
/org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_0
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Started slave with pid 13504
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Setting slave bus name::1.2 on display :0
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: slave (pid:13504) done (status:0)
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Slave exited: 0
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Finishing display: /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_0
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Unmanaging display
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: unmanage display
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Killing slave
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Disposing slave proxy
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Killing slave
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.054506 seconds
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: display status changed: 4
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayStore: Unreffing display: 0x1c56200
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: Adding display on seat /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: Found the following X displays:
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: 0
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: Reserving X display: 1
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayStore: Adding display /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_1 to store
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Managing display: /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_1
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: manage display
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Preparing display: /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_1
...
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Finishing display: /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displays/_5
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: Unmanaging display
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: unmanage display
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Killing slave
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Disposing slave proxy
gdm[13499]: GdmSlaveProxy: Killing slave
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.051475 seconds
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: display status changed: 4
gdm[13499]: GdmDisplayStore: Unreffing display: 0x1c56700
gdm[13499]: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server log for 
errors