gnome start-up issues

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 15 13:08:01 PST 2006


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J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> OK, is all this documented somewhere, that I haven't seen?

All except s-t-b is documented in the FreeBSD GNOME FAQ.  You should be
periodically reading http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ and all the important
docs there, especially if you're going to run development versions of GNOME.

Joe

> 
> ----------  In Response to your message -------------
> 
>>  Date:  Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:42:51 -0500
>>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>>  From:  Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>>  Subject:  Re: gnome start-up issues
>>
> J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>> After using system_tools_backends_enable="YES" and dbus_enable="YES", the
>> dbus-daemon --system and system-tools-backends are both running.
>> (they may have been running with gnome_enable="YES", I changed it before
>> I checked.)
> 
>> While the screen and cd/dvd creator react the same, the messages are now:
>> Initializing gnome-mount extension
> 
>> ** (nautilus:1260): WARNING **: Failed to initialize libhal context: (null
>> ) : 
>> (null)
> 
>> ** (nautilus:1260): WARNING **: Could not initialize hal context
> 
> Make sure you have hald_enable="YES", and that hald is running.
> 
> 
> 
>> GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT 
>> (object_type)' failed
>> aborting...
> 
>> warning: Unable to get location for thread creation breakpoint: generic er
>> ror
>> LibGTop-Server: pid 1301 received eof.
> 
>> ** (gnome-panel:1259): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with G
>> DM: 
>> No such file or directory
> 
>> ** (gnome-panel:1259): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with G
>> DM: 
>> 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.
> 
> 
>> Whein I try to su I get:
>>  su: sorry
>>  su: BAD SU jwb to roor on dev/ttyv0
> 
> I can't reproduce.  I started a startx session, then logged out, and I
> can still su.  What are you doing in your session?
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
>> Jim
> 
>> ----------  In Response to your message -------------
> 
>>>  Date:  Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:24:10 -0500
>>>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>>>  From:  Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>>>  Subject:  Re: gnome start-up issues
> 
>>>  
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>>>  On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 07:46 -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>>>  > Joe,
>>>  >=20
>>>  > Thanks for the response, I put gnome_enable=3D"YES" in /etc/rc.conf,
>>>  > and I still get the exact same outcome.
>>>  
>>>  Is dbus-daemon --system running?  What about system-tools-backends?
>>>  
>>>  >=20
>>>  > Another thing that is occuring is that after shuttind down the gnome
>>>  > desktop, I can no longer become su without exiting and then re-loginin
>> g o=
>>>  n.
>>>  
>>>  What error do you get?
>>>  
>>>  Joe
>>>  
>>>  >=20
>>>  > Jim
>>>  >=20
>>>  > ----------  In Response to your message -------------
>>>  >=20
>>>  > >  Date:  Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:10:57 -0500
>>>  > >  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>>>  > >  From:  Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>>>  > >  Subject:  Re: gnome start-up issues
>>>  > >
>>>  > > =20
>>>  >=20
>>>  >=20
>>>  >=20
>>>  --=20
>>>  Joe Marcus Clarke
>>>  FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
>>>  FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
>>>  http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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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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