Gnome 2.28 - GDM Login/User Password - Button Shutdown/Restart

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Apr 4 19:11:00 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 15:28 -0300, Alan wrote:
> Gnome 2.28 - Stable FreeBSD 8.0 and FreeBSD 7.3 Release.
> GDM did not show the fields username and password.
> The Restart and Shut Down buttons not working in GDM.
> Logged in as "normal user" in Gnome 2.28, the Restart and Shut Down buttons 
> do not appear. The buttons appear only as root.
> 
> The problem was solved by adding the "proc" in / etc / fstab:
> proc / proc procfs rw 0 0
> 
> Why HAL FAQ-FreeBSD-Gnome does not report this problem?
> The FAQ-HAL FreeBSD-Gnome only shows the problem with mounting devices.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org//gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3

The HAL FAQ is for HAL.  It mentions that /proc is a requirement.  The
main FAQ also lists it as a requirement for gnome-keyring.  Given
that /proc only needs to be mounted once, following one of these two
FAQs would have set you straight.

Joe

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