Description of problem:

walters@nexus>  gdmflexiserver -n
Could not access GDM configuration file. 
walters@nexus> strace gdmflexiserver -n 
...
writev(11, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\0\241\0\0\0", 12},
{"\240\312\321\277\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\272\16"..., 161}], 2) = 173
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI, revents=POLLIN},
{fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 4, -1) = 1
read(11, "GIOP\1\2\1\1a\0\0\0", 12)     = 12
read(11, "\240\312\321\277\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\1\1\1"..., 97) = 97
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 14
connect(14, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.gdm_socket"}, 110) = 0
send(14, "VERSION\n", 8, MSG_NOSIGNAL)  = 8
read(14, "G", 1)                        = 1
read(14, "D", 1)                        = 1
read(14, "M", 1)                        = 1
read(14, " ", 1)                        = 1
read(14, "2", 1)                        = 1
read(14, ".", 1)                        = 1
read(14, "6", 1)                        = 1
read(14, ".", 1)                        = 1
read(14, "0", 1)                        = 1
read(14, ".", 1)                        = 1
read(14, "8", 1)                        = 1
read(14, "\n", 1)                       = 1
send(14, "CLOSE\n", 6, MSG_NOSIGNAL)    = 6
close(14)                               = 0
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 6), ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb7f16000
write(1, "Could not access GDM configurati"..., 41Could not access GDM
configuration file.
) = 41
write(10, "\1\v\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\350\351\261\0", 16) = 16
close(10)                               = 0
writev(13, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
close(13)                               = 0
writev(11, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
close(11)                               = 0
close(9)                                = 0
close(8)                                = 0
unlink("/tmp/orbit-walters/linc-c0a-0-c2e45252c3e2") = 0
close(12)                               = 0
munmap(0xb7f16000, 4096)                = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?
Process 3082 detached