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Date:      Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:33:05 -0400
From:      Paul Lambert <eb30750@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Gnome-lite-2.30.1 presents greeter and login button but no user names (proc is mounted on /proc)
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinLuM62Mo_f-t=pogBhV0pwbCj11wGSNnSbte1C@mail.gmail.com>

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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?

Thanks
Paul



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