From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 00:03:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A201065671 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (penna-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::1279]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0538FC28 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:03:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:2464::4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3G03ThO021009; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:03:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: MandrakeRoot In-Reply-To: <4804EB9C.2070902@lavabit.com> References: <4804EB9C.2070902@lavabit.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Ht5FUjA0cUWq8ypWWTef" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:03:54 -0400 Message-Id: <1208304234.93515.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MIME_QP_LONG_LINE, NO_RELAYS autolearn=no version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: annoying HAL installation bug and workaround X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:03:50 -0000 --=-Ht5FUjA0cUWq8ypWWTef Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 20:53 +0300, MandrakeRoot wrote: > Hello. I have installed Gnome on my Freebsd 7 using >=20 > pkg_add gnome2 =20 >=20 > which is the recommended way. In the Gnome Freebsd project documentation= . >=20 > The problem is that the hald package is poorly installed by this method=20 > and this issue i found also on some obscure older forums. What happens=20 > in fact it is that the haldaemon user is not created and hald cannot=20 > start. What is annoying is that although i launched hald with the=20 > verbose option it did not spit out any error until i decided to launch=20 > it overriding the daemonise option. >=20 > On that older forum it was assumed that it was a bug in the sysinstall=20 > procedure but in fact i think it comes from installing from the binaries=20 > as i did not install gnome2 from the beginning on my comp . The=20 > workaround i used and which is not my discovery was to uninstall the=20 > package and reinstall from source. I think this is a bug that should be=20 > solved as soon as possible as HAL seems to be fundamental for a good=20 > functioning of gnome. I have never been able to reproduce this problem. The only way the haldaemon user would not be created during a package installation is if PACKAGE_BUILDING was set in the environment. This variable is not set by the pkg_* tools, but it is set by sysinstall. If you ran pkg_add from a shell outside of sysinstall, and did not have PACKAGE_BUILDING defined in your environment, you should have had the haldaemon user created. >=20 > Strangely another issue was suddenly solved . I had not been able=20 > previously to access the System/Administration menus, but after i=20 > installed HAL again from source i was able to enter the menus which had=20 > been previously responding with a " you are not authorised ,blah ,=20 > blah...." message. The system Administration tools are currently broken on FreeBSD. Fixing these tools is one of the proposed Summer of Code projects as well as a general Idea. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-Ht5FUjA0cUWq8ypWWTef Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkgFQmoACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fbngCeOPvWlFydYpQhKs6HCQOfIjfU SigAn3v7PGQ/6F4QXmXKi6Eweh6Qi3uP =dszc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ht5FUjA0cUWq8ypWWTef--