Gnome-lite-2.30.1 presents greeter and login button but no user
names (proc is mounted on /proc)
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at freebsd.org
Sat Jul 31 17:41:19 UTC 2010
On 7/30/10 10:33 PM, Paul Lambert wrote:
> I tried gnome desktop in early June and got it working out of the box. But,
> while attempting to install gnome2-lite got the port version out of sync and
> was advised to wait until the new release.
>
> Once 8.1 was released, I used pkg_delete -a to remove all packages and then
> performed a freebsd-update upgrade 8.1-release. This was successful so I
> proceeded to use pkg_add gnome2-lite from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.ch/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/Latest/. This was also
> successful but it was necessary to add both Xorg and gdm packages. After
> making the proper configurations, mounting proc on /procfs and adding one
> user with adduser I rebooted. The login screen appeared with the greeter
> box showing version and cpu name and a login button but no user names. I
> click on login and the screen goes blank only to return to the login screen
> after 15 seconds or so. I could do this four or five times before the
> screen would lockup.
>
> I then attempted to install gnome2 and again deleted all the packages. This
> install halted on downloading the samba4-devel package. (This is about a 30
> minute download). Since I do not want stuff like this on my system, I only
> use fuse, I backtracked and deleted all the packages once again. I
> reinstalled gnome2-lite, Xorg and gdm. I rechecked configurations and
> rebooted only to get to the same place as before.
>
> The only pertinent errors I found were in the messages log.
>
> could not launch application "at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop
>
> metacity failed to register before timeout
>
> gnome-settings-daemon.desktop failed to register before timeout.
>
> could not launch gnome-power-manager
>
> There are some threads out there that state metacity is not starting soon
> enough for gdm. The advice was to modify the gdm start script to start
> metacity when gdm launches. I was not able to confirm that this actually
> was successful for anyone. And, I do not see any such references to
> metacity in the GDM startup scripts for linux.
>
> Does anyone have some suggestions?
You need to update your installed packages from ports. The 8.1 package
for metacity was bad. If you do a portupgrade or the like, those bad
packages will be updated, and GNOME should work for you.
Joe
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