GNOME can work well in VMWare but cannot work in real machine

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 6/17/10 2:52 AM, Bear wrote:
> hi, Er... I tried but I still dont know how to build gnome-session
> with debug symbol... I only can type in 'make config' in the folder
> of gnome-panel. I will give you the backtrack later but accorading to
> my analysis, I think this is a problem related to dbus or polkit.
> Because it looks that most of the programs which depand on dbus have
> problems. For example, not only gnome-panl but also
> gnome-keyring-daemon and other applications also show this message in
> console. And also, when I click on a non-FreeBSD partition, no window
> would shown. If I wait for more than 5min it would show a error
> message window read 'No Response'(I cannot remember the exact mesage
> but I know its a very long error message with hal no response).

It does sound like a dbus problem.  Can I get remote access to this machine?

Joe

> 
> ------------------ Bear 2010-06-17
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------- 
> From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-06-16 06:42:02 To:Bear 
> CC:freebsd-gnome Subject:Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but cannot
> work in real machine
> 
> On 6/15/10 1:13 PM, Bear wrote:
>> hi, I have done this. I created a new account named 'test' but it
>> still have this problem...
> 
> Can you rebuild gnome-panel and gnome-session with debugging
> symbols, then attach gdb while gnome-panel is "hung?"  Once attached,
> run "bt" to get a backtrace.  That may help isolate the problem.
> 
> Joe
> 
>> 
>> ------------------ Bear 2010-06-16
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-06-16 00:11:32 To:Bear 
>> CC:freebsd-gnome Subject:Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but
>> cannot work in real machine
>> 
>> On 6/15/10 12:03 PM, Bear wrote:
>>> hi, Yes of course I am sure that my hostname is reslovable. I
>>> used to install GDM but it still has this problem. And also, I
>>> dont wanna install it because I *DO NOT* need it.
>> 
>> You might try creating a virgin account on the problem machine, and
>> see if the problem follows the account.  That is, a new account may
>> not see any problem.
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>>> 
>>> ------------------ Bear 2010-06-16
>>> 
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-06-15 14:23:03 To:Lingfeng 
>>> Xiong CC:freebsd-gnome Subject:Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare
>>> but cannot work in real machine
>>> 
>>> On 6/14/10 9:50 PM, Lingfeng Xiong wrote:
>>>> hi there, I found a strange thing. As I described, my GNOME
>>>> cannot work with these error messages: gnome-session[69785]:
>>>> WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup ses sion
>>>> information for process '69785' ** (gnome-panel:69812): WARNING
>>>> **: Could not ask session manager if shut down i s available:
>>>> Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
>>>> applic ation did not send a reply, the message bus security
>>>> policy blocked the reply, t he reply timeout expired, or the
>>>> network connection was broken.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> And gnome-panel has a very very slow responding. And also, the 
>>>> driver cannot be mounted without any error message. The thread 
>>>> about this problem with more information is here: 
>>>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15013
>>>> 
>>>> I has performed a test, and found that GNOME can work well in
>>>> my VMWare!! But in my real machine, no matter how many times I
>>>>  reinstalled my system, it cannot work. Could you help me?
>>>> thx!!
>>> 
>>> Make sure your machine's hostname is resolvable, and make sure
>>> you are running gdm.  Gdm will provide GNOME the ability to
>>> reboot and shutdown.
>>> 
>>> Joe
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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