[desktop-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Switch to gdm

[Nicolas Linkert]

> I think I know what happened.
> It seems that you have an old (JDS3.1) smf manifest
> on your system
> and possible old gdm config files.  So
> SUNWgnome-display-mgr-root
> could not be installed (check your install log in
> /var/sadm/install/logs).  So now you have the old
> manifest file that
> doesn't match your vermillion build for 2 reasons (at
> least):
>  - gdm was moved to /usr/sbin
> - the gdm manifest was moved from
> application/gdm2-login to
>    application/graphical-login/gdm2-login.
> try installing SUNWgnome-display-mgr-root manually.
>   It will
> ll you which files are in conflict.  Remove them (or
> the package
> that includes them) and then try installing
> SUNWgnome-display-mgr-root
> again.

That almost did it :) The path for gdm is now correct, I have svc set right, and I have the gdm config files. However, custom.conf under /etc/X11/gdm/ is more or less empty. And gdmsetup :

[root at alpha:~]$ gdmsetup
  Failed to connect to socket, sleep 1 second and retry
  Trying failed command again.  Try 2 of 5.
  Failed to connect to socket, sleep 1 second and retry
  Trying failed command again.  Try 3 of 5.
  Failed to connect to socket, sleep 1 second and retry
  Trying failed command again.  Try 4 of 5.
  Failed to connect to socket, sleep 1 second and retry
  Trying failed command again.  Try 5 of 5.
  Command failed 5 times, aborting.

In case this just requires an ordinary gdm.conf file, I have no problem. If, however, it is somehow tweaked, I am lost once again.
 
 
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