gnome start-up issues

[Nikolaj Thygesen]

Are these two ways of launching dbus equivalent:

	dbus_enable="YES" in rc.conf
and
	exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session in .xinitrc


	br - N :o)

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From: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Joe Marcus Clarke
Sent: 14. december 2006 18:11
To: J. W. Ballantine
Cc: gnome at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: gnome start-up issues

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J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> On a 6-stable system, with this am's cvsup from ports, and MC.com,
> I'm getting an unusual startup of the gnome desktop.  It starts,
> I get the gnome splash screen and then a bug buddy report from
> nautilus that CD/DVD creator has crashed.  After I close that (having
> already sent one report), the desktop remains grey, until I go to
> System->Preferences->Desktop Background and when the
> Desktop Background Preferences window opens, so does the background,
but
> no icons.
> 
> The output of startx follows:
> 
>  xauth:  creating new authority file /home/jwb/.serverauth.981
>  
>  
>  X Window System Version 6.9.0
>  Release Date: 21 December 2005
>  X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
>  Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] 
>  Current Operating System: FreeBSD thunder1.homer.att.com
6.2-PRERELEASE 
> FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Tue Dec 12 15:17:06 EST 2006
>  jwb at thunder1.homer.att.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THUNDER1 i386
>  Build Date: 28 October 2006
>          Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
>          to make sure that you have the latest version.
>  Module Loader present
>  Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>  (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Dec 13 08:59:47 2006
>  (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>  SESSION_MANAGER=local/thunder1.homer.att.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1003
>  
>  (nautilus:1049): Liboobs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to socket 
> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
>  
>  Liboobs-CRITICAL **: OobsSession object hasn't connected to the bus,
cannot 
> register OobsObject
>  aborting...
>  
>  warning: Unable to get location for thread creation breakpoint:
generic error
>  LibGTop-Server: pid 1067 received eof.
>  
>  ** (gnome-panel:1048): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection
with GDM: 
> No such file or directory
>  ** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner
of name 
> 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
>  
>  ** (gnome-panel:1048): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection
with GDM: 
> No such file or directory
>  /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
>  waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

You need to make sure system-tools-backends and dbus are started.  Add
system_tools_backends_enable="YES" and dbus_enable="YES" or
gnome_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.

Joe

>  
> Jim Ballantine
> 
> 
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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