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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:36:15 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Brent Clark <brentgclarklist@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gdm wont start
Message-ID:  <20090209133615.GA82751@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4990094A.1080205@gmail.com>
References:  <4990094A.1080205@gmail.com>

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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.

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Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 
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