From a91847b6138d5abebd81a6f29ef0a2da4749faa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: marcus Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 04:24:53 +0000 Subject: Add a note about running GDM on 5.1-RELEASE or earlier. Also, point users to the OpenPAM patch to fix the crashes. git-svn-id: svn://creme-brulee.marcuscom.com/ports/trunk@1077 df743ca5-7f9a-e211-a948-0013205c9059 --- x11/gdm2/pkg-message | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'x11/gdm2') diff --git a/x11/gdm2/pkg-message b/x11/gdm2/pkg-message index 2f8526d22..8ad58bea4 100644 --- a/x11/gdm2/pkg-message +++ b/x11/gdm2/pkg-message @@ -4,3 +4,15 @@ Do _NOT_ use /etc/ttys to start gdm at boot time. This will result in gdm hanging or restarting constantly. Instead, copy the included gdm.sh.sample script to gdm.sh, and restart. This script is found, by default, in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d. + +If you are running 5.x and you are running 5.1-RELEASE or earlier, GDM will +fail to work due to a bug in OpenPAM. You can download a patch from +http://www.FreeBSD.org/~marcus/pam_get_user.c.diff. You must also have the +FreeBSD src tree on your system. Do the following to apply the patch: + +# cd /usr +# patch -p < /path/to/pam_get_user.c.diff + + +Then rebuild and install world. Note, this bug does _NOT_ affect FreeBSD +4.x. -- cgit v1.2.3