Metacity not loading

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:07:27 -0500, Frank Jahnke <jahnke at sonatabio.com>  
wrote:

> Metacity no longer loads for me as a regular user who is a member of the
> wheel group.  It does for root.  Any ideas what might be causing this?
>
> It started about three or four weeks ago when I was playing with wine.
> Thereafter, in retrospect, metacity has not loaded.  In the mean while I
> have updated to xorg 7.3 and Gnome 2.20, thinking erroneously that one
> of these may have been the cause.  I am on 6.2-R-p7 with the nVidia
> driver 1.0.9639.
>
> Metacity itself has the correct permissions.  Loading it from a terminal
> window (as a non-root user) once Gnome has loaded corrects the various
> and sundry issues as you would expect.  I start gnome using "startx" and
---------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^

Have you read in the /usr/ports/UPDATING (20070913) about xorg 7.3 vs  
nvidia-driver? You have to start xorg by 'startx -- -ignoreABI' and make  
sure the Composite extension is disable.

If you still have problem, then I have no idea.

Cheers,
Mezz

> not gdm; .xinitrc simply contains "exec gnome-session."  The expected
> services are started in rc.conf.
>
> Any guidance would be most appreciated.
>
> Frank


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