Problem with dbus and hald on FreeBSD-7.1

Albert Shih Albert.Shih at obspm.fr
Wed Feb 18 15:04:54 PST 2009


 Le 18/02/2009 à 13:36:59+0530, manish jain a écrit
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my system a couple of days back. While the 
> rest of the system works very well, I keep getting the following errors 
> when I start gnome :
> 
> gnome-keyring-daemon : couldn't allocate secure memory to keep passwords 
> and or keys from being written to the disk
> 
> gnome-keyring-daemon : error connecting to the D-Bus system bus. Failed 
> to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system-bus-socket : No such file or 
> directory
> 
> gnome-keyring-daemon : Scheduling hal init retry
> 
> The 2nd and 3rd error messages (above) keep getting repeated as long as 
> the X session is active. Incidentally, there are no pid files in 
> /var/run/dbus/ and /var/run/hald/
> 
> My system is a Celeron 800 MHz on a Tomato motherboard with an Intel 810 
> chipset. Its ACPI is on the FreeBSD blacklist, and I had to enable it 
> through /boot/loader.conf. Disabling or enabling ACPI does not seem to 
> have any effect on the problem I am facing.
> 
> Performance of the X-server is greatly and adversely affected by the 
> above problem. I would request anyone to advise me how to get dbus and 
> hald up and running correctly.
> 
> Also, when I start an X session as root, I cannot access most of the 
> graphical adminstrative utilities (User and group management, for 
> example). I get an error to the effect "You are not authorised for this 
> action : Permission denied". I wonder if this is related to the 
> dbus/hald problem in any way.
> 
Do you have :

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

in your /etc/rc.conf ? You need it. 

Regards.


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