Time and Date Disabled Gnome 2.22.3 FreeBSD 7.0-release-p2

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Fri Jul 18 17:37:07 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 02:38 +1200, Christopher Gregory wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> 
> I am having issues specifically with the Time and Date configuration in
> gnome 2.22.3 on freebsd 7.0-RELEASE-p2
> 
> What is happening, is if you click on System>Administration>Time and
> date, when it comes up all options are greyed out.  This means that from
> within gnome, you are not able to set it up to sync with a time server,
> or even manually change the time and date.

These tools are in bad need of fixing for FreeBSD.  It's on our projects
page.  If you know Perl, and want to update them to make them work,
please do.

Joe

> 
> This was working, though with some of the updates to the ports
> collection I am not exactly sure when it stopped working.
> 
> I have used cvsup to update the ports collection and have also used the
> standard-supfile to update the src list (leaving it at src-all).
> 
> I have removed gnome by:
> 
> pkg_deinstall -R x11/gnome2
> 
> and also by using:
> 
> pkg_deinstall -Rf x11/gnome2
> 
> I have used pkgdb -F to fix any inconsistancies.
> 
> I have deleted the .gconf .gconfd .gnome2 .gnome2_private directories.
> 
> No matter what I have tried the issue still remains.
> 
> Is there something else I need to delete in order to purge all of gnome,
> and start totally from scratch?  I have followed ALL of the faq for
> de-installing gnome.
> 
> What I want is to be able to adjust the time and date from within gnome
> as you are meant to be able to.
> 
> Yes I am fully aware of the command line options.  This is a work around
> and NOT a fix.
> 
> A listing of uname -a is:
> 
> FreeBSD freebsd 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #3: Fri Jul  4
> 20:43:40 NZST 2008  /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  amd64
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
> 
> 
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