Re: Question with gdm

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:47:10 Robert Del Huerto wrote:
> Would anyone know why I'm getting the following error message when
> installing gnome v1.0?
> 
> user gdm does not exist using root
> group gdm does not exist using root
> 
> 
> I used:
> 
> rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> 
> ...the error popped up during the install of gdm-1_0_0-2_i386.rpm
> 
> Should I create the user and group manually?  Is there an .rpm that
> I removed or haven't installed that would add the gdm user and group?

gdm wants some of its files set as user gdm and group gdm, but doesn't automatically
add these users if they do not already exist.  I would suggest that you add
them yourself and then reinstall the RPM to insure that all of the permissions
are set appropriately.

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