From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 31 17:41:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D2C1065670 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:41:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCFE8FC0A for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:41:18 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6VHfHnQ013577; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:41:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6VHfGhJ012922; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:41:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C54603C.6060905@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:41:16 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Lambert References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome-lite-2.30.1 presents greeter and login button but no user names (proc is mounted on /proc) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:41:19 -0000 On 7/30/10 10:33 PM, Paul Lambert wrote: > I tried gnome desktop in early June and got it working out of the box. But, > while attempting to install gnome2-lite got the port version out of sync and > was advised to wait until the new release. > > Once 8.1 was released, I used pkg_delete -a to remove all packages and then > performed a freebsd-update upgrade 8.1-release. This was successful so I > proceeded to use pkg_add gnome2-lite from > ftp://ftp.freebsd.ch/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/Latest/. This was also > successful but it was necessary to add both Xorg and gdm packages. After > making the proper configurations, mounting proc on /procfs and adding one > user with adduser I rebooted. The login screen appeared with the greeter > box showing version and cpu name and a login button but no user names. I > click on login and the screen goes blank only to return to the login screen > after 15 seconds or so. I could do this four or five times before the > screen would lockup. > > I then attempted to install gnome2 and again deleted all the packages. This > install halted on downloading the samba4-devel package. (This is about a 30 > minute download). Since I do not want stuff like this on my system, I only > use fuse, I backtracked and deleted all the packages once again. I > reinstalled gnome2-lite, Xorg and gdm. I rechecked configurations and > rebooted only to get to the same place as before. > > The only pertinent errors I found were in the messages log. > > could not launch application "at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop > > metacity failed to register before timeout > > gnome-settings-daemon.desktop failed to register before timeout. > > could not launch gnome-power-manager > > There are some threads out there that state metacity is not starting soon > enough for gdm. The advice was to modify the gdm start script to start > metacity when gdm launches. I was not able to confirm that this actually > was successful for anyone. And, I do not see any such references to > metacity in the GDM startup scripts for linux. > > Does anyone have some suggestions? You need to update your installed packages from ports. The 8.1 package for metacity was bad. If you do a portupgrade or the like, those bad packages will be updated, and GNOME should work for you. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome