Trouble with gnome session ;-0

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 02:22 -0400, Randall Stewart wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I am sure this is just a futz up on my part somehow.. but be
> darned if I can figure out what I am missing.
> 
> I upgraded ports a few weeks ago, before bsd-canada (actually right
> before), and when gnome came up via gdm on my console.. no login
> window. Oh I can see the name of the machine, hit a button to
> get preferences (use on-screen keyboard etc).. but no login window.
> 
> So I was heading for bsd-canada and thought.. gee I will worry about it
> later..
> 
> So now I spent some time.. by first:
> 
> 1) Getting the latests ports (from Sunday).
> 2) removing every port.
> 3) Building world
> 4) installing world (and of course the 9.0 kernel too) (I am running  
> amd64)
> 5) make install xorg/gnome2 etc.
> 
> So I have just finished all that.. everything is squeaky new and clean..
> And tada.. no login window ;-(
> 
> I do see this in the greeter log:
> ****************
> gnome-session[1672]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'at-spi- 
> registryd-wrapper.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to  
> execute child process "${exec_prefix}/libexec/at-spi-registryd" (No  
> such file or directory)
> Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /usr/local/ 
> etc/gdm/home/.config/metacity/sessions/ 
> 103006751114b9dc6e127479189456898500000016720007.ms: Failed to open  
> file '/usr/local/etc/gdm/home/.config/metacity/sessions/ 
> 103006751114b9dc6e127479189456898500000016720007.ms': No such file or  
> directory
> ** (process:1684): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=1684 display=:0.0  
> xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-rlGpxS/database
> 
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1686): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **:  
> Unable to determine the session we are in: Remote Exception invoking  
> org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GetSessionForUnixProcess() on /org/ 
> freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager at name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit:  
> org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup  
> session information for process '1686'  
> org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError Unable%20to%20lookup 
> %20session%20information%20for%20process%20%271686%27
> gdm-simple-greeter[1684]: Gtk-WARNING: gtkwidget.c:5628: widget not  
> within a GtkWindow
> Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message  
> with a timestamp of 0 for 0xe0002b (Login Wind)
> Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a  
> 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
> Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message  
> with a timestamp of 0 for 0xe0002b (Login Wind)
> Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a  
> 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
> gdm-simple-greeter[1684]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id  
> found
> gnome-session[1672]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to  
> lookup session information for process '1672'
> *****************
> 
> Nothing else looks out of place... the :0.log has just the normal X'y  
> type things and no
> (EE) reported.
> 
> I am sure it must be some snarfed configuration I have but I am at a  
> loss as to what
> it is. Any suggestion would be most helpful

Force a rebuild/reinstall of sysutils/polkit, sysutils/policykit, and
sysutils/consolekit, and you should be set.

Joe

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