Trouble with gnome session ;-0

[Randall Stewart]

On May 25, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> 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:

Thanks for the advice..

so I went into each directory you list in succession and did (after  
stopping gdm)

make clean
make install <which of course fails due to the old package being in>
pkg_delete -f xxxxx
make install
cd /next/dir

And then restarted gnome.. and I see the same thing ;-(

Did you want me to remove them all first?

I also note that pkg_delete was not able to remove all of two of them.
polkit had some extension files in a sub dir and policykit had some
include files as well...

The greeter log at the re-start again looks like:
*****************************************
gnome-session[45826]: 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/ 
10178c985394b6cb4d127481079176047600000458260007.ms: Failed to open  
file '/usr/local/etc/gdm/home/.config/metacity/sessions/ 
10178c985394b6cb4d127481079176047600000458260007.ms': No such file or  
directory
** (process:45838): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=45838 display=:0.0  
xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-HjKg4w/database

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:45841): 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 '45841'  
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError Unable%20to%20lookup 
%20session%20information%20for%20process%20%2745841%27
gdm-simple-greeter[45838]: 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 0x100002b (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 0x100002b (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[45838]: WARNING: Unable to find users: no seat-id  
found
*****************************************


Thanks

R
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Randall Stewart
803-317-4952 (cell)