[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and console switching

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 10/27/12 07:12 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> 2012-10-27 16:36, Udo Grabowski (IMK) пишет:
>> I also had some problems in a5 (a2 was ok), which disappeared
>> again in a7. But I have a slightly different setting on vt7:
>> /etc/gdm.conf (I think that's only a question of taste, but
>> who knows...):
>> ...
>> [security]
>> CheckDirOwner=false
> ...
>
> The file /etc/gdm.conf (nor /etc/gdm/gdm.conf) did not exist at
> all, I tried creating it now.

Uh, sorry, new name, it is /etc/gdm/custom.conf now !

>
> Directory /var/run/gdm is also absent (though X11 session is up);
> how do you ensure it exists, given that /var/run is tmpfs? Do you
> create it manually (via startup scripts/SMF), or some GDM setting
> provides it? Can it influence the console problems and/or X user
> switching?

SMF, in /lib/svc/method/svc-gdm, add :

mkdir /var/run/gdm 1>/dev/null 2>&1;chown gdm:gdm /var/run/gdm	

just before /usr/sbin/gdm $arg &
Maybe that should also go into the next OI.

 > Can it influence the console problems and/or X user switching?
I don't think so, but at least one .xerrors message disappears...
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