gnome help

Sun Jul 26 18:52:24 UTC 2009

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 22:46 -0600, freebsd at box201.com wrote:
> Thanks for helping Joe. I have done more research. 
> 
> The ##gnome people on freenode has just spent the last 3 hours
> locating the problem. 
> 
>  
> 
> Here is what we have:
> 
> /var/logs/messages
> 
> http://pastebin.com/d69ce888

These messages are harmless.  We use a permissive version of dbus, and
they wouldn't cause what you're seeing anyway.

> 
>  
> 
> there is a permission problem with my dbus. We changed the system file
> 
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf

This file shouldn't even exist.  All of FreeBSD's dbus configuration is
under /usr/local/etc.

> 
>  
> 
> And it almost worked but the original does not.
> 
> Here is my original: http://pastebin.com/d3a391b2c
> 
> The config we tried: http://pastebin.com/m1f0eb00d
> 
> And we returned back to the original. 
> 
>  
> 
> gdb shows the error pretty well but I’m unable to tread much into it.
> (Still new at this)
> 
> http://pastebin.com/d1f1b9ffb 

This is useless without debugging symbols.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html .

> 
>  
> 
> And the advice from ##gnome on freenode
> 
> <borschty> so your problem is a file in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ causing
> the requests to be rejected
> 
> <borschty> this and the http://pastebin.com/d69ce888 log should be
> enough for the bsd people to help you
> 
>  
> 
> So yes dbus is running. So is hald.

Really?  I haven't seen proof of that.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html for more on
troubleshooting hal problems.

Joe

> 
> But drilling down it seems dbus has some permission problems
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke [mailto:marcus at marcuscom.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 2:22 PM
> To: freebsd at box201.com
> Cc: freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: gnome help
> 
> 
>  
> 
> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:39 -0600, freebsd at box201.com wrote:
> > Gentlemen,
> >
> >                 I did a portupgrade and now I'm broke. Something
> didn't
> > build right and I don't know where to check. Everything said the
> build went
> > ok except for linux-gtk which required linux-pango that has know
> > vulnerabilities so that's ok I don't really need that. However, now
> the
> > gnome session locks up my mouse and continually fails to load a file
> manager
> > so it starts again and again until it fills the buffer or I kill the
> X
> > server. Could someone help me figure out where to look and what to
> fix?
> 
> Make sure hald and dbus-daemon are running.  You should have:
> 
> hald_enable="YES"
> dbus_enable="YES"
> 
> In /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> It also looks like you're trying to run GNOME as root which is not a
> good idea.  Try running it as a regular user.
> 
> Joe
> 
> >
> > 
> >
> > Example startup:
> >
> > 
> >
> >  /home/user> startx
> >
> > xauth:  creating new authority file /user/.serverauth.67450
> >
> > 
> >
> >
> >
> > X.Org X Server 1.6.1
> >
> > Release Date: 2009-4-14
> >
> > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> >
> > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE i386
> >
> > Current Operating System: FreeBSD lazerus.box201.com 7.1-RELEASE
> FreeBSD
> > 7.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan  7 02:34:35 MST 2009
> > user at lazerus.box201.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAZERUS i386
> >
> > Build Date: 21 July 2009  03:48:33PM
> >
> > 
> >
> >         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
> >
> >         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> >
> > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> >
> >         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> >
> >         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)
> unknown.
> >
> > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Jul 25 12:18:40 2009
> >
> > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> >
> > (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
> >
> > gnome-session[67473]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable
> to lookup
> > session information for process '67473'
> >
> > GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-uBfeUl/socket
> >
> > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-uBfeUl/socket.ssh
> >
> > GNOME_KEYRING_PID=67485
> >
> > 
> >
> > ** (gnome-settings-daemon:67483): WARNING **: Connection failed
> >
> > 
> >
> > ** (gnome-settings-daemon:67483): WARNING **: Failed to connect
> context:
> > Connection refused
> >
> > Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
> > /user/.config/metacity/sessions/10aaf9193ee33d96ee12485459281333800000674730
> > 014.ms: Failed to open file
> >
> '/user/.config/metacity/sessions/10aaf9193ee33d96ee1248545928133380000067473
> > 0014.ms': No such file or directory
> >
> > W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless
> --system
> > is specified).
> >
> > ** (gnome-volume-control-applet:67500): DEBUG: Disabling debugging
> >
> > 
> >
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:67496): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not
> get owner
> > of name 'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such name
> >
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:67496): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the
> daemon
> > responsible for org.freedesktop.Hal is not running?
> >
> > 
> >
> > ** (gnome-power-manager:67496): WARNING **: Either HAL or DBUS are
> not
> > working!
> >
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