gnome start-up issues

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:10:57 -0500
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
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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.

Color me confused, but I have never seen any reference to
'system_tools_backends_enable="YES"'. It is not in the FAQ and I don't
find any reference to it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. I do enable dbus,
polkitd and hald, but I am unaware of any other startup requirement. (I
don't use gdm.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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