gnome start-up issues

[J. W. Ballantine]

After a portsupgrade following a cvsup Friday 3PM eastern time, I get further
in the startup process, but the gnome-powere-manager crashes, and I get
a nautilus-debug-log.txt file.  I now get a grey background with the top
and bottom bars normally populated.  When I open the Preference->
desktopbackground,
the background appears with no further action by me, but it doesn't if I don't
open desktopbackground, but no icons.

The head of the nautilus-debug-log.txt file reads:

===== BEGIN MILESTONES =====
0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7117 (GLog): Failed to initialize libhal 
context: (null) : (null)
0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7148 (GLog): Could not initialize hal context

0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7153 (GLog): g_object_new: assertion 
`G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7178 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 6
0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7225 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 6
0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7261 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 6
0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7292 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 6
0x815a0c0 2007/01/08 07:14:17.7327 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 6
with the last line continuing.

Jim


----------  In Response to your message -------------

>  Date:  Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:45:05 -0500
>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>  From:  Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>  Subject:  Re: gnome start-up issues
>
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>  J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>  > I start gnome with exec gnome-session in .xinitrc.
>  > 
>  > ps shows:
>  >  783  ?? Ss {running time} /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system
>  >  790  ?? I  {running time} dbus-daemon --session --print-addess --nofork
>  > 1057  ?? Rs {running time} dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 15 --print-p
id 17
>  > XXXX  ?? S  {running time} dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 15 --print-p
id 17
>  > 
>  > when the pid for the second dbus-daemon --fork keeps incrementing with
>  > a running time of 0:00:00.
>  
>  What does your env look like after starting X?
>  
>  Joe
>  
>  > 
>  > There is no running instance of gnome-vfs-daemon according to ps,  it
>  > just keeps exiting on signal 6.
>  > 
>  > Jim
>  > 
>  > ----------  In Response to your message -------------
>  > 
>  >>  Date:  Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:52:18 -0500
>  >>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>  >>  From:  Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>  >>  Subject:  Re: gnome start-up issues
>  >>
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>  >>  On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 09:01 -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
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>  >>  >=20
>  >>  > It seems I need a little help with getting a backtrace on the
>  >>  > gnome-vfs-daemon.  If I try to start it by itself, it fails with:
>  >>  >  Failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Failed to execute dbus-launch 
to=2
>  > 0
>  >>  > autolaunch D-Bus session
>  >>  > expected.
>  >>  
>  >>  You should be running your gnome-session through dbus-launch.  This
>  >>  should happen automatically when gnome-session is run.  If you do not
>  >>  have a dbus-daemon running similar to:
>  >>  
>  >>  dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 22 --print-pid 24
>  >>  
>  >>  Then nothing will work correctly.
>  >>  
>  >>  >=20
>  >>  > When I startx and then switch to another virtual console, and
>  >>  > run: gdb /usr/local/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon and then within gdb
>  >>  > run bt the response I get is No stack.
>  >>  
>  >>  That's because the process is not running.  You need to bind gdb to a
>  >>  running instance of gnome-vfs-daemon.
>  >>  
>  >>  Joe
>  >>  
>  >>  --=20
>  >>  Joe Marcus Clarke
>  >>  FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
>  >>  FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
>  >>  http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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