From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 14 09:15:59 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8BA3156 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mgaterz2.oekb.co.at (mgaterz2.oekb.co.at [143.245.5.112]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10FBBB90 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from exchhubcas2.oekb.co.at ([143.245.3.66]) by mgaterz2.oekb.co.at with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 14 Mar 2014 10:15:55 +0100 Received: from aurora.oekb.co.at (143.245.9.16) by internal-relay-exchhubcas2.oekb.co.at (143.245.3.65) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.318.4; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:15:55 +0100 Received: from aurora.oekb.co.at (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aurora.oekb.co.at (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s2E9FtY2011149 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:15:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) Received: (from ej@localhost) by aurora.oekb.co.at (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s2E9FtG2011148 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:15:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from a@jenisch.at) X-Authentication-Warning: aurora.oekb.co.at: ej set sender to a@jenisch.at using -f Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:15:55 +0100 From: Ewald Jenisch To: Subject: Re: Gnome doesn't come up after system & portupgrade Message-ID: <20140314091555.GA11103@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20140313142920.GA45061@aurora.oekb.co.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140313142920.GA45061@aurora.oekb.co.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:15:59 -0000 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:29:20PM +0100, 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. > ... Hi, In the meantime I could figure out the root cause of the problem and a "cure" against it - maybe this is of help to others also running into a problem like this: My problem was that the entire directory /usr/local/etc/dbus-1 was missing on my machine. So I went to another box, also running 9.2, and did a "pkg_info -W /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/session.conf" which is just one of the files contained in the dbus-1 directory in a working installation. pkg_info -W revealed that dbus-1.6.18 was the package/port responsible for these files, so I went ahead re-built dbus-1.6.18 from ports, did a make deinstall && make reinstall and everything was fine again. What I don't know however why this directory was missing in the first place, but at least now Gnome is working again. -ewald