From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Sep 15 19:31:47 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F159FA04B3C for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:31:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7AFE1C9A for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:31:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id D70A9A04B3B; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:31:47 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A18A04B3A for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:31:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 997411C99 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:31:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id t8FJVkoD093331 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:31:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id t8FJVkbR093328; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:31:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:31:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Glenn English cc: freebsdQuestions Subject: Re: 10.2 graphics problem In-Reply-To: <8F541F88-2EAE-434C-B52C-43A744F54ADD@slsware.net> Message-ID: References: <8F541F88-2EAE-434C-B52C-43A744F54ADD@slsware.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:31:46 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:31:48 -0000 On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Glenn English wrote: > I'm trying to move from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. xorg runs and > displays the crossed grey and black, like it's supposed to. I've even > seen an XFCE desktop. But once this comes up (both of them), there's > no way, short of rebooting, to quit xorg or to get back to the > console. Without details of what actually happens, it is difficult to determine the cause. But it is probably due to using the old console, sc(4). Use vt(4) by adding this to /boot/loader.conf: kern.vty=vt > I've tried several times to install XFCE with 10.2. > I'm thinking the problem may have to do with dbus. Probably not, although dbus is used by xfce. > I booted this morning, and it works perfectly (as far as I can tell) to the console. But when I type: > > service dbus start > > the error message says it couldn't get the UID and GID for 'messagebus'. So I said > > pkg install dbus > > Everything updated it self properly, and it said that the latest version of dbus was already installed. > > Where does user messagebus come from? Am I wrong about what the problem is? Any thought and/or instructions would be greatly appreciated. When the package is installed, the user was created. Start dbus in /etc/rc.conf and forget about it: dbus_enable="YES"