Problems with gnome

[Paul Schmehl]

--On March 8, 2006 5:57:02 PM -0600 Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:

> I upgraded gnome on my 5.4 workstation (ran gnome-upgrade212.sh), and now
> the system locks up shortly after I login.  If I don't login I can open a
> tty and do whatever I want from the cli, but if I login, the system locks
> up and I can't even open a tty (or restart X.)  Mouse and keyboard inputs
> are ignored, and the only option is a hard reboot.
>
> What can I do to troubleshoot this problem?  I'm pretty sure it has
> something to do with gnome, since that's what's killing the system.
>
> FreeBSD 5.4 SECURITY, X Window System Version 6.9.0, gnome2-2.12.3.
>
> :0.log has the following error in it: "error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/server/SecurityPolicy", and that file does not exist
> on the hard drive.
>
> There's nothing out of the ordinary in /var/log/messages or
> /var/log/dmesg.today (that I can see.)
>
Addendum: I'm not having any problems with a remote X session.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/