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Old 2nd May 2017
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Yay! It's time for another "Gnome and/or GDM are being whack on OpenBSD" thread (because the world needs one every few months). On previous episodes we have this and this and several others which have obsolete instructions, exemplified by using "dbus_daemon" rather than "messagebus."

For background, I have a fresh OpenBSD 6.1 install and have run

Code:
# pkg_add gnome gnome-extras
Followed by

Code:
# rcctl disable xdm
# rcctl enable multicast messagebus avahi_daemon gdm
# reboot
from /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/gnome-3.22.2p0. Upon boot, this gives me a black screen with an X for the mouse pointer that flickers once and does nothing - I can only login by CTL+ALT+F2. I sourced this problem back to being from loading GDM. After removing gdm from the pkg_scripts, I am able to login, and running gdm from the commandline yields the same effect. After looking at this thread I went ahead and added
Code:
machdep.allowaperature=2
to rc.conf.local, to no avail. I've also gone through the mailinglist which report the exact same error, with no resolution. My fstab looks like

Code:
b6f3e77f641d275a.b none swap sw
b6f3e77f641d275a.a / ffs rw 1 1
b6f3e77f641d275a.k /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
b6f3e77f641d275a.d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
b6f3e77f641d275a.f /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2
b6f3e77f641d275a.g /usr/X11R6 ffs rw,nodev 1 2
b6f3e77f641d275a.h /usr/local ffs rw,wxallowed,nodev 1 2
b6f3e77f641d275a.j /usr/obj ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
b6f3e77f641d275a.i /usr/src ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
b6f3e77f641d275a.e /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
and I have confirmed that I own drm0

Code:
$ ls -l /dev/drm*
crw-------  1 matthew  matthew   87,   0 May  1 15:35 /dev/drm0
crw-------  1 root     wheel     87,   1 May  1 15:35 /dev/drm1
crw-------  1 root     wheel     87,   2 May  1 15:35 /dev/drm2
crw-------  1 root     wheel     87,   3 May  1 15:35 /dev/drm3
As to the current state of things, my rc.conf.local file looks like
Code:
multicast=YES
machdep.allowaperature=2
pkg_scripts=messagebus avahi_daemon
My path is
Code:
$ echo $PATH
/home/matthew/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:.
I've attached copies of my dmesg, Xorg.0.log, \:0.log (from gdm), and \:0-greeter.log (also from gdm). The only error I can find in there is in the \:0-greeter.log which says

Code:
(gnome-settings-daemon:34354): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_task_return_error: assertion 'error != NULL' failed
Gdk-Message: gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
but I have no idea what this means.

Thanks.
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Old 2nd May 2017
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Hello, and welcome!

I'm going to guess that there is an error in documentation -- specifically, the pkg-readme is likely to be out-of-date. That is because in 6.1, xdm(1) was replaced with xenodm(1). So the command # rcctl disable xdm should have been # rcctl disable xenodm.

Let us know if that solves the problem.

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Old 2nd May 2017
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Thanks! I've lurked forever but apparently my search skills have failed me this time.

Speaking of, unfortunately # rcctl disable xenodm did not fix the problem. This had no effect on logs/rc.conf.local or output, so there is nothing new to post for that.

To permute things, I also tried removing machdep.allowaperture=2 from rc.conf.local. I cross referenced this change with a warning in X0rg.0.log which says "Check that you have set 'machdep.allowaperture=1' in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot your machine." This was probably there to begin with, but I went ahead and created a /etc/sysctl.conf file with the line machdep.allowaperture=1 and rebooted. This didn't fix the problem, but it did remove the warning from X0rg.0.log. I also tried iterating through allowaperature=2 and 3, as per xf86(4).
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yes, machdep.allowaperture=2 belongs to /etc/sysctl.conf not /etc/rc.conf.local

there is sometimes typo in the variable in posts above, but as the warning disappeared, I assume you typed it right

this URL may be helpful: https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/do...s/OpenBSD.html

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If intel or radeon DRM/KMS drivers are in use the machdep.allowaperture sysctl becomes irrelevant.
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