Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:30:10 +0100 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@skuhra.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent gam_server from running? Message-ID: <1329751810.17948.140661038911689@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20120216024408.GA57917@sputnjik.localdomain> References: <20120215165738.75518ea9@cox.net><20120216024408.GA57917@sputnjik.localdomain>
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012, at 03:44, Nikola Pavlovi=C4=87 wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:57:38PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which > > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem > > to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and > > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > >=20 >=20 > PolicyKit is like that too. :) >=20 > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I > > can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether > > it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool > > somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it! :-) >=20 > It's not just desktop environments, a huge amount of 'normal' ports > depend on > it. I'm running a bare bones window manager and can't get rid of it. > At first I thought polkit and gam_server were some kind of leftovers > from a couple of months long experiment with KDE4, but after I made sure > every last bit of KDE was gone from the system (it was like trying > to kill those packs of core hounds in Molten Core[1]; older WoW players > will appreciate the analogy) and tired to remove them, this is what I > got (and still get; some of the more amusing dependants marked): Hmm, maybe glib20/_glib20 is wrongly used in Mk/bsd.gnome.mk and/or the po= rt Makefiles. e.g: accessibility/atk, devel/gobject-introspection and graph= ics/cairo list glib20 (instead of _glib20) in USE_GNOME. So you can't even = install accessibility/atk without devel/gamin. :-(=20 --=20 Herbert
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