Odd GNOME login behaviour

[Romain Tartiere]

Hi

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 04:05:58PM +0100, Viktor Seifert wrote :
> A few days ago I intstalled freebsd 6.1 on my laptop(Samsung X20).  I am
> tracking RELENG_6.  I updated all the ports and with it GNOME to 2.16.
> Now I am experiencing some odd behaviour when logging in into GNOME.
> gdm starts up ok and I can type my username and password.  Than the
> splask shows up but hangs after displaying "Window Manager".  But if I,
> before logging in, connect to the internet by assigning an adress to
> bge0 and adding a default route, the login proceeds smoothly.  I
> actually have to connected it doesn't suffice to just assign an adress
> and a route.
> I am at loss here how to track down the problem.  It confuses me that
> GNOME needs a connection anyway.  And besides: I am running freebsd on a
> laptop so I won't be able to provide a connection to the internet all
> the time.
Have a look to this FAQ entry:
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20

> Regards and a happy 2007,
Happy 2007

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