From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 16:11:31 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 2AF661065675 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:11:31 +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 C23578FC1F for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:11:30 +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 o5FGBTUj008985; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:11:29 -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 o5FGBTwt021272; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:11:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C17A631.5060407@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:11:29 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bear References: , <4C171C41.1080405@freebsd.org> <201006160003293357455@Gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201006160003293357455@Gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome Subject: Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but cannot work in real machine 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: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:11:31 -0000 On 6/15/10 12:03 PM, Bear wrote: > hi, Yes of course I am sure that my hostname is reslovable. I used to > install GDM but it still has this problem. And also, I dont wanna > install it because I *DO NOT* need it. You might try creating a virgin account on the problem machine, and see if the problem follows the account. That is, a new account may not see any problem. Joe > > ------------------ Bear 2010-06-16 > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-06-15 14:23:03 To:Lingfeng > Xiong CC:freebsd-gnome Subject:Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but > cannot work in real machine > > On 6/14/10 9:50 PM, Lingfeng Xiong wrote: >> hi there, I found a strange thing. As I described, my GNOME cannot >> work with these error messages: gnome-session[69785]: WARNING: >> Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup ses sion information >> for process '69785' ** (gnome-panel:69812): WARNING **: Could not >> ask session manager if shut down i s available: Did not receive a >> reply. Possible causes include: the remote applic ation did not >> send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, t >> he reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. >> >> >> And gnome-panel has a very very slow responding. And also, the >> driver cannot be mounted without any error message. The thread >> about this problem with more information is here: >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15013 >> >> I has performed a test, and found that GNOME can work well in my >> VMWare!! But in my real machine, no matter how many times I >> reinstalled my system, it cannot work. Could you help me? thx!! > > Make sure your machine's hostname is resolvable, and make sure you > are running gdm. Gdm will provide GNOME the ability to reboot and > shutdown. > > Joe > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome