SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 7/11/10 3:58 AM, Bear wrote:
> hi,
> Thanks for your reply. But I dont think GDM is required. When I use Linux such as Debian, I can run GNOME without any problems, include this error message, without GDM. GDM should not be a required module.
> And also, I believe this message told us the slow responding of gnome-panel. If I run startx as root, this error message would gone. So I believe this is caused by a security policy(possibly dbus).
> I hope my analysis is useful :)

Root works because root is, of course, authorized to shutdown the
system.  When you're a non-root user, additional authorization needs to
be done.

Joe

> 
> ------------------				 
> Bear
> 2010-07-11
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> From:Joe Marcus Clarke
> Send Date:2010-07-11 14:22:58
> To:Bear
> CC:FreeBSD GNOME Users
> Subject:Re: SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues
> 
> On 7/10/10 10:20 PM, Bear wrote:
>> hi,
>> Thanks for your working on these issues! Cant you recreate the issue? I can say something about the issue which related to gnome-panel. I always met this issue. My environment is listed below:
>> Hardware:
>> CPU: Intel Q8300
>> Video: GeForce GTS 250 512MB
>> RAM: Kingstone 2GB DDR2 800
>> Motherboard: GA-EP45-UD3 rev 1.0 (Chipset: Intel P45)
>>
>> Software:
>> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
>> Xorg
>> gnome2-lite
>>
>> I installed my OS and then modify my PASKAGESITE to 8-stable. Then I typed in
>> pkg_add -r xorg gnome2-lite
>>
>> And then I add dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf. I also add the line into /etc/fstab to make it mount /proc automatically. I am sure that they both okay to ping localhost and my computer name. Then I reboot my computer and then modified ~/.xinitrc to add the line below:
>> exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
>>
>> At last, I ran startx. Then the issue appeared. gnome-panel took long time to appear and in tty0, I got error messages like:
>>
>> ** (gnome-panel:69812): WARNING **: Could not ask session manager if shut down is available: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
> 
> This is exactly what I see when I use startx, and it is expected.
> Gnome-panel is trying to talk to GDM during this time.  Since GDM is not
> running, you get this failure.  If you want to get rid of this, you'll
> need to start GNOME with GDM.
> 
> Joe
> 


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Joe Marcus Clarke
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