Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:41:16 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Paul Lambert <eb30750@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome-lite-2.30.1 presents greeter and login button but no user names (proc is mounted on /proc) Message-ID: <4C54603C.6060905@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinLuM62Mo_f-t=pogBhV0pwbCj11wGSNnSbte1C@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinLuM62Mo_f-t=pogBhV0pwbCj11wGSNnSbte1C@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/30/10 10:33 PM, Paul Lambert wrote: > 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? You need to update your installed packages from ports. The 8.1 package for metacity was bad. If you do a portupgrade or the like, those bad packages will be updated, and GNOME should work for you. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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