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

[Jeffrey S. Racine]

Hi Joe.

Many thanks for the kind reply and for your efforts.

I have gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf which is unchanged (this ought
to also run dbus_enable="YES" as it did previously?), and did rebuild
gnome-session. 

However, I just rebuilt gnome-session once more along with dbus and hal
and it is now working. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience.

-- Jeff

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:07 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: 
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:45 -0500, Jeffrey S. Racine wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Did you rebuild gnome-session after rebuilding all ports:
> 
> portupgrade -f gnome-session
> 
> >  
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> It looks like dbus is not running.  Did you set:
> 
> dbus_enable="YES"
> 
> In /etc/rc.conf?
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > 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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