On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Steve Fox wrote:

> 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!

Still would like to see the log file even if it is working now.
It's in /root
 
> 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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> >                                         --Axalon
> 
> 

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