HEADS UP: Summarize the reports of GNOME crashes

[Chris Stankevitz]

--- On Fri, 7/2/10, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> First, have all users experiencing this installed
> EVERYTHING from packages?

Yes, I see this problem when installing EVERYTHING with pkg_add.  See below.

> That is, if a user builds all GNOME bits
> from ports do they see the problem?

Yes, I see this problem also when installing EVERYTHING from ports.

> Are all users seeing slowness or crashes in GNOME
> using startx (or some other non-GDM way of starting
> GNOME)?

Yes, I see slowness when launching gnome with startx.

> If a user using packages starts GNOME with GDM, does the
> problem go away?

Sort of.  If I start gnome using GDM, there is no slowness; however, there is a worse problem: the gnome applets do not work.  i.e. when I set the number of workspaces using the applet, my commands are ignored.

Thank you for looking into this.  You will see this problem too if you follow these steps:

1. Buy a HP Z800 computer
2. Boot to FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 DVD
3. Install FreeBSD kern-developer
4. portsnap fetch extract
5. pkg_add -r xorg
6. pkg_add -r gnome2
7. add gnome_enable="YES" to rc.conf
8. add /proc to /etc/fstab
9. Fix my.domain references in /etc/hosts
10. Reboot and login

Chris