GDM is slow to load and does not show any usernames

[Mike Burns]

A bit of a background on this system: freshly installed 7.2-RELEASE a week 
ago, upgraded the OS to -STABLE and the ports to the latest as of Saturday.  
The computer is a Thinkpad T500.

[mike] ~% uname -a
FreeBSD battered.mike-burns.com 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sat Jun 20 
11:04:19 EDT 2009    
   root at battered.mike-burns.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BATTERED  amd64

GDM has had two issues:

* It takes a long time to show the login prompt. The leafy background 
  picture shows rather quickly, but a few moments pass before any widgets 
  are shown. This is in /var/log/messages (I stopped and started GDM by hand 
  just to get finer control over the log. This may have changed the things 
  that are logged; for example, the kvm_getenvv line might have a different 
  error message the first time GDM is started):

Jun 21 12:00:39 battered sudo:     mike : TTY=ttyp0 ; PWD=/usr/home/mike ; 
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start
Jun 21 12:00:41 battered kernel: drm0: [ITHREAD]
Jun 21 12:00:53 battered gnome-session[1382]: WARNING: Application 
'metacity.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Jun 21 12:00:53 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1393/mem
Jun 21 12:00:53 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1393/mem
Jun 21 12:00:53 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1399/mem
Jun 21 12:01:03 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1392/mem
Jun 21 12:01:03 battered gdm-simple-greeter[1392]: WARNING: Unable to find 
users: no seat-id found
Jun 21 12:01:03 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1399/mem

* No usernames are offered in the widget; I have to click 'Other...' and 
  fill in my username myself. My UID is 1001.


Potentially related are these three GNOME issues. If they're unrelated 
that's fine, I'll make another thread for them:

 * Once I type my username and password the widgets go away and I stare at a 
   leafy green background image for a few seconds, then GNOME starts. The 
   log from GNOME starting:

Jun 21 12:04:13 battered gnome-keyring-daemon[1412]: couldn't allocate 
secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk
Jun 21 12:04:14 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1416/mem
Jun 21 12:04:14 battered gnome-session[1416]: WARNING: Unable to determine 
session: Unable to lookup session information for process '1416'
Jun 21 12:04:16 battered gnome-session[1416]: atk-bridge-WARNING: 
AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
Jun 21 12:04:16 battered gnome-session[1416]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not 
set.
Jun 21 12:04:16 battered gnome-session[1416]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not 
locate registry
Jun 21 12:04:16 battered pulseaudio[1456]: main.c: High-priority scheduling 
enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy.
Jun 21 12:04:28 battered gnome-session[1416]: WARNING: Application 
'metacity.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Jun 21 12:04:29 battered pulseaudio[1476]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Jun 21 12:04:30 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1467/mem
Jun 21 12:04:30 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1470/mem
Jun 21 12:04:31 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1467/mem
Jun 21 12:04:31 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1470/mem
Jun 21 12:04:34 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1462/mem
Jun 21 12:05:08 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv 
failed: cannot open /proc/1511/mem

  * The second time GDM or GNOME is started (such as when I bring down the 
    GDM daemon then bring it back up) every thing is very sluggish. Opening 
    new terminals, switching tabs or paging down in Galeon, etc.

  * GDM offers 'Restart' and 'Shutdown' buttons, but clicking those gives me 
    a dialog informing me that it failed to restart/shutdown. From within 
    GNOME I do not have a 'Shutdown' item under the System menu, _usually_.  
    Sometimes it shows up (I have yet to find any pattern), but the 
    resulting dialog does not offer 'Shutdown' or 'Restart'; instead it 
    offers 'Suspend', 'Hibernate', and 'Cancel' (only 'Cancel' works).

-- 
Mike Burns mike at mike-burns.com http://mike-burns.com