Authentication Failed

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, J. W. Ballantine
<jwb at hera.homer.att.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I made the change to .xinitrc per you request, restarted the gnome
> desktop, and the error box is still poping up and there is no
> error file.

Do you have hald, dbus and avahi-* running? If you don't, you will
need to add those in the /etc/rc.conf or start those by manual.

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome

Cheers,
Mezz


> Jim
>
> ----------  In Response to your message -------------
>
>>  Date:  Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:55:20 -0500
>>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at hera.homer.att.com>
>>  From:  Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com>
>>  Subject:  Re: Authentication Failed
>>  Sender:  owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>>
>>  On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:46 AM, J. W. Ballantine
>>  <jwb at hera.homer.att.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Mezz,
>>  >
>>  > I start with startx and exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
>>  > in .xinitrc.
>>
>>  Try to start GNOME by:
>>
>>  exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
>>
>>  GNOME works a lot better if you use GDM by add gnome_enable="YES" in
>>  the /etc/rc.conf.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Mezz
>>
>>
>>  > There is no ~/.xsession-errors file.
>>  >
>>  > Jim
>>  >
>>  > ----------  In Response to your message -------------
>>  >
>>  >>  Date:  Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:21:21 -0500
>>  >>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at hera.homer.att.com>
>>  >>  From:  Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com>
>>  >>  Subject:  Re: Authentication Failed
>>  >>  Sender:  owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>>  >>
>>  >>  On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:59 PM, J. W. Ballantine
>>  >>  <jwb at hera.homer.att.com> wrote:
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > Hi,
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > I running gnome on an FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE box and I get a black window
>>  >>  > with a life preserver and an Authentication Failed message.  It
>>  >>  > has a button for more details, which only says I don't have proper
>>  >>  > authentication.  Then is no indication on what process is causing
>>  >>  > the window to pop-up.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > Is anyone aware of what process is causing this window and why?
>>  >>
>>  >>  How did you start GNOME? Check in the ~/.xsession-errors to see if you
>>  >>  get any error outputs.
>>  >>
>>  >>  Cheers,
>>  >>  Mezz
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >>  > Thanks
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > Jim Ballantine
>>
>>
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