Is there something wrong with the default dbus policy?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:27:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz at yahoo.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > this
> > time I am installing everything using ports, not
> > packages.  This post leads me to believe my new
> > strategy has a chance:
> > 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-June/024394.html
> > 
> > I will report back.
> 
> I just rebuild my system using locally compiled ports instead of
> pkg_add.  As you suspected, the "dbus" problem has not gone away. :(
> 
> Has anybody been able to install FreeBSD and gnome in the past few
> weeks and not had this problem?

Have you tried the suggestion from Koop Mast? It did the trick for
me. (At least the issue of the session manager is fixed. I suspect some
other issues may still be causing me some problems.)
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