Bug 61472

Summary:	cannot start gdm because of false ServAuthDir
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	b52 <tm-8rjpk>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	59768

Description b52 2004-08-24 00:14:18 UTC

Hello,

after an emerge world i got an error message on starting gdm (/etc/init.d/xdm), which says that ServAuthDir is set to /var/gdm in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and this directory doesn't exist.
I changed in my config the ServAuthDir back to /var/lib/gdm and found a relation to this bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53526.
Or do i have to create /var/gdm ?

Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-24 06:06:40 UTC

no you shouldn't need to, i think i know why this is happening & fixed it in -r1. Please sync & merge 2.6.0.4-r1 that should contain a fix.