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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