gdm wont start

[cwt]

Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:45:30PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
>   
>> Hiya
>>
>> I upgraded to 7.1 and did a portupgrade and I think I broke something 
>> and for the likes of me .. I dont know how to fix this.
>>
>> I havnt changed my /etc/rc.conf, and it all looks the same / untouched.
>>
>> When ever I restart gdm I get the following.
>>
>> ** (gdm-binary:2646): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed 
>> to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or 
>> directory
>>
>> %grep gdm /etc/rc.conf
>> gdm_enable="YES"
>>
>> If anyone could assist I would really appreciate the assistance.
>>     
>
> similar things happended to me with firefox and kazehakase ports.
> I never figured it out. I blame dbus and hal ports, but couldn't
> investigate this fully as after the 23-24 Jan port upgrages my
> X failed alltogether.
>
>   
on a similar problem with new gdm and dbus errors, i deleted/moved 
(backuped) all folders that have to do with .gconf or .gtk from my home 
directory. something worked for me, but i have no idea which.

give it a try and see how it goes?