GNOME setting daemon failing to execute

[OpenBSD 3.3]  

Using XDM, I logging in and the GNOME splash loaded and an error was produced.  

"The settings Daemon restarted too many times.  

 The last error message was:  

 Failed to execute gnome-settings-daemon: 9 (no such file or directory)  

GNOME will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in."  

.xsession-errors output:  

"SESSION_MANAGER=local/puffy.someplace.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/30328 Loaded background '0x111f00

Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1"
 

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No errors found in .xdm-errors  

Anyone know a fix for this?    

my .xsession file:  

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session  

(apparently, xdm was unable to locate gnome-sessions. Adding the path resolved that problem.)  

Thanks.  

Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@CS.WM.EDU> wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:41:35PM -0700, n a wrote:
> after executing that statement and running 'xdm,' logging in results in the login screen be redisplayed (so I can't log in).
>

1. Open .xsession in your favourite editor
2. Type in this (without indentation)

#!/bin/sh -l
exec gnome-session

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3. Save the file and exit the editor
4. Make .xsession executable and readable

chmod a+rx .xsession

5. FWIW, the default window manager is not bad at all if you know how to customise it. But go ahead and enjoy the speed of Gnome.

Best regards,

-- 
Zvezdan Petkovic 
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/

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