Upgraded to gnome 2.24, gdm not allowing logins... hal related?

[Jeffrey S. Racine]

Hi.

I upgraded to gnome 2.24 on a FreeBSD 7.1 system (read and
followed /usr/ports/UPDATING) to gnome 2.24. 

All went well, no errors reported.

However, gdm no longer is allowing logins. I enter my username and it
just returns to the login screen. Booting in single user mode allows me
to run gnome via startx with no problems. All looks good. 

However, /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1 tells me

libhal.c 3476 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=Connection is
closed
process 915: arguments to dbus_connection_get_dispatch_status() were
incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file
dbus-connection.c line 4108.

I checked out the hal faq and running lshal produces

error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to
connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or
directory.

Recompiling bdus and hal does not appear to help. Any pointers would be
most appreciated.

Also, one minor typo in http://www.freebsd.org//gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1
There should be no .sh in lines two and three below it would appear.

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd.sh start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start

Thanks for the assistance, and thanks to all for this upgrade!

-- Jeff
       

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