Actually I had just done a complete re-install because upgrading from
6.1 to 7.0beta left a weirdness on my system...many minor things, many
of which have been corrected I would guess by looking at the changelogs.
When I had gdm working before it was on 6.1 with the non-mandrake rpm.
In regards to your question /tmp must have already been cleared because
I didn't find the log there. So I reinstalled the rpm with the --force
option and tried running gdm again....mysteriously it worked. Thanks for
the quick response!
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Steve Fox wrote:
>
> > I put GNOME in /etc/sysconfig/desktop so that prefdm would select gdm as
> > my graphical login manager. Then I ran gdm and it complained about group
> > gdm not existing. So I used userconf to create the gdm group and add
> > myself and root to the group. I tried running gdm again and got the
> > message that /var/gdm is not owned as gdm.gdm. So I did a chown -R
> > gdm.gdm /var/gdm and ran gdm again...this time I got a kernel panic and
> > my system froze. I know I've had gdm working before with an rpm from
> > gnome.linuxpower.org but those seem to have disappeared. Anyway, it
> > would be great it something could be fixed for gdm to work.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Install or upgrade. whats the install.log say?
>
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