gdmchooser segfaulting!!! (was: gdm: please help me!!!)

[Riccardo Persichetti <riccardo persichetti mo nettuno it>]

Hi ben, first of all thanks for your help,

I figured out what was preventing me to run gdm.
I just changed the second line in gdm.conf

"Browser="

to 0 and gdm started without any problem.
Now my question is: how could I use gdm so that it displays the face browser?

Trying to debug my problem, I changed the line in gdm.conf "Browser=" back
to 1, then launched "gdmchooser" as root from a rxvt terminal and it returned:


/convert: No such file or directory
/convert: No such file or directory
gdk_imlib_ERROR: Cannot load image: /bin
All fallbacks failed.
Segmentation fault


Could someone please tell me how to solve this problem.
Any suggetion would be appreciated.

At 12.05 01/04/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Try setting KillInitClients=0
>Also, remove all the PID files for GDM (/var/run/GDM.PID).  I'm assuming
>you've tried a reboot for flushing purposes.  
>The best way to test GDM is to start GDMgreet from within X.  It
>doesn't do anything useful, because you're already logged in, but you
>can do some troubleshooting that way.  Make sure you're starting GDM
>as root.  This happened to me too, but I can't remember exsactly what
>the problem was.... what I CAN tell you is that something (I don't
>see a problem from your GDM.conf, but...) is wrong with your gdm.conf.
>It might be a permissioning problem with some of the involved directories.
>
>On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Riccardo Persichetti wrote:
>
>> I've got sources of gnome, compiled, installed and everything is ok.
>> I'm running Debian 2.1.
>> 
>> But gdm doesn't work: when i launch it, it starts the X server, set the
root
>> color, wait a few seconds and then kill X server.
>> It does so in a never-ending loop.
>> 
>> To help you to help me :-)
>> here are two files:
>> 
>> syslog
>> ------
>> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[187]: gdm_config_parse: Invalid server line in
>> config file. Ignoring!
>> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_main: Here we go...
>> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_local_servers_start: Starting :0
>> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_start: :0
>> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Securing :0
>> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Could not
>> unlink /opt/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth file: No such file or directory
>> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[190]: gdm_server_start: '/usr/bin/X11/X -auth
>> /opt/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth :0'
>> Apr  1 18:03:11 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_usr1_handler: Starting
>> display :0!
>> Apr  1 18:03:11 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_slave_start: Opening display :0
>> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_display_manage: Managing :0
>> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_display_manage: Forked slave:
192... 
>> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_start: Starting slave process
>> for :0
>> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_start: Opening display :0
>> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
>> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 198
>> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_child_handler: child 190 returned 0
>> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_child_action: :0
>> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_start: :0
>> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Securing :0
>> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[200]: gdm_server_start: '/usr/bin/X11/X -auth
>> /opt/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth :0'
>> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_usr1_handler: Starting
>> display :0!
>> 
>> gdm.conf
>> --------
>> [appearance]
>> Browser=1
>> Completion=1
>> Logo=1
>> LogoImage=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-large.png
>> NoFaceImage=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/nophoto.png
>> GlobalImageDir=
>> Quiver=1
>> Iconify=1
>> IconFile=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/gdm.xpm
>> Gtkrc=
>> 
>> [system]
>> ShutdownMenu=1
>> SuspendCommand=
>> UserFileCutoffSize=65536
>> UserIconMaxWidth=128
>> UserIconMaxHeight=128
>> DefaultPath=/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin:/bin
>> 
>> [messages]
>> Welcome=Welcome to %h
>> 
>> [daemon]
>> SessionDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Sessions
>> PidFile=/var/run/gdm.pid
>> Greeter=/opt/gnome/bin/gdmgreeter
>> Chooser=/opt/gnome/bin/gdmchooser
>> User=gdm
>> Group=gdm
>> DisplayInitDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Init
>> KillInitClients=1
>> PreSessionScriptDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/PreSession
>> PostSessionScriptDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/PostSession
>> AuthDir=/opt/gnome/var/gdm
>> LogDir=/opt/gnome/var/gdm
>> 
>> [servers]
>> 0=/usr/bin/X11/X
>> #1=/usr/bin/X11/X
>> 
>> [xdmcp]
>> Enable=0
>> MaxLoadAvg=10
>> MaxPending=4
>> MaxManageWait=20
>> MaxSessions=4
>> Port=177
>> 
>> [chooser]
>> ImageDir=
>> DefaultImage=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/nohost.png
>> 
>> [debug]
>> Enable=1
>> 
>> 
>> Please I really need your help, i've tried all the way i could but I
FAILED!!!
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>>   Riccardo
>> 
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