HEADS UP: Summarize the reports of GNOME crashes

[Byron Campbell]

On 07/02/2010 10:26 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> There have been a few threads which seem to be describing the same
> issue.  That is, users are reporting that when starting GNOME through
> startx that the panel takes a long time to come up, polkit may crash,
> etc.  I want to see if I can tie together some commonalities to help
> make troubleshooting easier.
>
> First, have all users experiencing this installed EVERYTHING from
> packages?  That is, if a user builds all GNOME bits from ports do they
> see the problem?  Are all users seeing slowness or crashes in GNOME
> using startx (or some other non-GDM way of starting GNOME)?  If they use
> GDM does the problem go away?
>
> If a user using packages starts GNOME with GDM, does the problem go away?
>
> Joe
>

1. For Gnome started w/ gnome_enable="YES" in rc.conf

* launches quickly, < 15 secs. from GDM to desktop.

* PROBLEM: Workspace Switcher: stuck on one workspace
   and settings for additions workspaces are not honored.

2. For Gnome started w/ startx:

* SLOW: 57 seconds from startx to fully loaded desktop

* WORKSPACE SWITCHER now WORKS AS IT SHOULD

3. In the tail of dmesg I see "dbus was not started properly" when I
only have gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. The error message goes 
away when adding dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES".

These exact problems occur for me with clean installs, both
for a system using all ports and a system using all pkgs.

How-To Duplicate: Do a complete fresh / clean install of everything,
including FreeBSD.

So far I've tested all of the following, all being FreeBSD AMD64
on an AMD Athlon 64 3800 box, with all up to date ports db:

8.1 RC-1, fresh install, xorg and Gnome from pkgs only
8.1 RC-1, fresh install, xorg and Gnome from ports only
8-Stable, fresh install, xorg and Gnome from pkgs and ports
8.1 RC-2, fresh install, xorg and Gnome from pkgs only

HTH,
Byron