Gnome2 hangs on startup

Jose M Rodriguez josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Sat Oct 9 06:55:14 PDT 2004


El Sábado, 9 de Octubre de 2004 15:49, Randy Bush escribió:
> > It's in our FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20
>
> it all looks reasonable until one gets to
>
>     Fam also requires that portmapper is running.  Add the
>     appropriate entry to /etc/rc.conf:
>
> due to long, and possibly outdated, training in security paranoia,
> i just can't bring myself to enable portmapper.
>
> do i need re-education, or should i hope that this can be changed
> in the future?
>
> randy
>

Ah.  You have problems with inetd/rpcbind/fam security in a machine that 
runs X.  What special security enabled version of X are you using?

--
  josemi



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