Odd GNOME login behaviour

[Viktor Seifert]

Romain Tartiere schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 04:05:58PM +0100, Viktor Seifert wrote :
>> A few days ago I intstalled freebsd 6.1 on my laptop(Samsung X20).  I am
>> tracking RELENG_6.  I updated all the ports and with it GNOME to 2.16.
>> Now I am experiencing some odd behaviour when logging in into GNOME.
>> gdm starts up ok and I can type my username and password.  Than the
>> splask shows up but hangs after displaying "Window Manager".  But if I,
>> before logging in, connect to the internet by assigning an adress to
>> bge0 and adding a default route, the login proceeds smoothly.  I
>> actually have to connected it doesn't suffice to just assign an adress
>> and a route.
>> I am at loss here how to track down the problem.  It confuses me that
>> GNOME needs a connection anyway.  And besides: I am running freebsd on a
>> laptop so I won't be able to provide a connection to the internet all
>> the time.
> Have a look to this FAQ entry:
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20
> 
>> Regards and a happy 2007,
> Happy 2007
> 
That helped.  Thank you very much.

Regards, Viktor Seifert