gnome start-up issues

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 08:49 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:10:57 -0500
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> > 
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> > > On a 6-stable system, with this am's cvsup from ports, and MC.com,
> > > I'm getting an unusual startup of the gnome desktop.  It starts,
> > > I get the gnome splash screen and then a bug buddy report from
> > > nautilus that CD/DVD creator has crashed.  After I close that (having
> > > already sent one report), the desktop remains grey, until I go to
> > > System->Preferences->Desktop Background and when the
> > > Desktop Background Preferences window opens, so does the background, but
> > > no icons.
> > > 
> > > The output of startx follows:
> > > 
> > >  xauth:  creating new authority file /home/jwb/.serverauth.981
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  X Window System Version 6.9.0
> > >  Release Date: 21 December 2005
> > >  X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
> > >  Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] 
> > >  Current Operating System: FreeBSD thunder1.homer.att.com 6.2-PRERELEASE 
> > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Tue Dec 12 15:17:06 EST 2006
> > >  jwb at thunder1.homer.att.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THUNDER1 i386
> > >  Build Date: 28 October 2006
> > >          Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
> > >          to make sure that you have the latest version.
> > >  Module Loader present
> > >  Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> > >          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> > >          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> > >  (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Dec 13 08:59:47 2006
> > >  (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> > >  SESSION_MANAGER=local/thunder1.homer.att.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1003
> > >  
> > >  (nautilus:1049): Liboobs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to socket 
> > > /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
> > >  
> > >  Liboobs-CRITICAL **: OobsSession object hasn't connected to the bus, cannot 
> > > register OobsObject
> > >  aborting...
> > >  
> > >  warning: Unable to get location for thread creation breakpoint: generic error
> > >  LibGTop-Server: pid 1067 received eof.
> > >  
> > >  ** (gnome-panel:1048): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: 
> > > No such file or directory
> > >  ** Message: Could not connect to power manager: Could not get owner of name 
> > > 'org.gnome.PowerManager': no such name
> > >  
> > >  ** (gnome-panel:1048): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: 
> > > No such file or directory
> > >  /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
> > >  waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE 
> > > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
> > 
> > You need to make sure system-tools-backends and dbus are started.  Add
> > system_tools_backends_enable="YES" and dbus_enable="YES" or
> > gnome_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Color me confused, but I have never seen any reference to
> 'system_tools_backends_enable="YES"'. It is not in the FAQ and I don't
> find any reference to it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. I do enable dbus,
> polkitd and hald, but I am unaware of any other startup requirement. (I
> don't use gdm.)

This is only required with GNOME 2.17.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/attachments/20061215/448cd7a5/attachment.pgp