Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:20:00 +0800 From: Bear <jilingshu@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD GNOME Users" <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues Message-ID: <201007111019575043861@Gmail.com>
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hi, Thanks for your working on these issues! Cant you recreate the issue? I can say something about the issue which related to gnome-panel. I always met this issue. My environment is listed below: Hardware: CPU: Intel Q8300 Video: GeForce GTS 250 512MB RAM: Kingstone 2GB DDR2 800 Motherboard: GA-EP45-UD3 rev 1.0 (Chipset: Intel P45) Software: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Xorg gnome2-lite I installed my OS and then modify my PASKAGESITE to 8-stable. Then I typed in pkg_add -r xorg gnome2-lite And then I add dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf. I also add the line into /etc/fstab to make it mount /proc automatically. I am sure that they both okay to ping localhost and my computer name. Then I reboot my computer and then modified ~/.xinitrc to add the line below: exec ck-launch-session gnome-session At last, I ran startx. Then the issue appeared. gnome-panel took long time to appear and in tty0, I got error messages like: ** (gnome-panel:69812): WARNING **: Could not ask session manager if shut down is available: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. I hope these steps are helpful. ---------------- Bear 2010-07-11 ------------------------------------------------------------- From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-07-11 01:46:04 To:FreeBSD GNOME Users CC: Subject:SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues Okay, I have been spending time trying to recreate the problems people have been reporting with GNOME. The problems are: * polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 crashes at startup * gnome-panel takes too long to start * Workspace Switcher does not work Sadly, I was unable to recreate what I would consider any problems. I tested the following configurations: * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from July 4 with ports from July 4 * FreeBSD i386 -CURRENT from July 4 with ports from July 4 * FreeBSD amd64 -CURRENT from July 5 with ports from July 5 * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from June 17 with ports from June 18 (in VMWare Fusion 3.0 on a Mac) I tested by starting GNOME from GDM and using startx. My ~/.initrc has simply this: #!/bin/sh exec ck-launch-session gnome-session My locale is en_US.UTF-8. I have procfs mounted, and I can perform: ping `localhost` Successfully. I am not running ANY firewalls, and I have not enabled any blackholes for TCP or UDP. When I run GNOME from startx, I do see a delay of about 10 seconds while waiting for the panel to appear. This is because gnome-panel is trying to contact GDM to determine if shutdown/reboot support is enabled. This delay is expected in a startx configuration. Workspace Switcher has always worked for me. I tried switching workspaces with the keyboard shortcut and by clicking on the space in the lower panel. Both worked. I was also able to bring up properties, and add an additional workspace. I was able to see a problem with polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in ONE instance. A core was produced. This problem seems to occur when GDM switches the user to the logged in user. I didn't notice any other problems related to this, though. For those still seeing workspace switch problems, rebuild gnome-panel with debugging symbols, then bind gdb to workspace switcher, and get a backtrace when it appears to be hung up. That's after making sure all of the above is inline as much as possible with my test machines. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome _______________________________________________ freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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