Gnome doesn't come up after system & portupgrade

[David Demelier]

On 13/03/2014 15:29, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After updating both my system/kernel and all installed ports on my
> system (9.2/AMD64) gnome2 doesn't come up any more.
>
> Symptoms:
>
> ------------------------------ < Cut here > ------------------------------
> X.Org X Server 1.7.7
> Release Date: 2010-05-04
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p10 amd64
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD mysystem 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #5 r262601: Fri Feb 28 10:39:56 CET 2014     root at mysystem:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> Build Date: 26 February 2014  09:06:18PM
>   
> Current version of pixman: 0.32.4
> 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
> 	to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> 	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Mar 13 14:44:57 2014
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> Failed to start message bus: Failed to read directory "/usr/local/etc/dbus-1/session.d": No such file or directory
> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
> xinit: connection to X server lost
>
> waiting for X server to shut down
> ------------------------------ < Cut here > ------------------------------
>
> ~/.xinitrc is the same as before:
>
> /usr/local/bin/gnome-session
>
> i.e. plain vanilla as per the handbook.
>
> Other than upgrading system/kernel and all ports I didn't change anything.
>
> My understanding is that the error message "...Failed to read
> directory "/usr/local/etc/dbus-1/session.d": No such file or directory
> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon..." has something
> to do with my problem. Unfortunately I couldn't find any hint by doing
> a google-search for this error.
>
> So has anybody of you out there seen this messages?
>
> How could I get up gnome2 up again?
>
> Thanks much in advance for any clue,
> -ewald
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I already had this one time ago, I just mkdir the

/usr/local/etc/dbus-1/session.d and it worked. Can you give a try ?