any clues hy Gnome isn't autobooting?

[Yuri Pankov]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 14:40 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:12:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:48:46PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:31:03 -0500, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>  
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > >On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:57:53AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > > >>On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:51:24 -0500, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>
> > > >>wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>Do you have anything in ~/.xsession-errors?
> > > >
> > > >	Good one!
> > > >
> 	[[ ... ]]
> 
> > > 
> > > It shows that you don't have dbus, hal and etc running. Follow this:  
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mezz
> > 
> 
> 	No-joy.  I followed the "full-gnome" tag instructions to the
> 	letter.  Ran pkgdb -F twice, one portupgrade -a.  Upon reboot;
> 	same.  I wind up at a root login and have to use the kdm widget.
> 	Both hal and dbus are in /var/db. hal is missing from the ps ax
> 	listing; dbus is there.
> 
>   621  ??  Is     0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/gdm-binary
> p1 14:20 <tao2> [579] psag hal
> p1 14:20 <tao2> [580] psag dbus
>  1126  ??  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 0630eeaa5fc7c9e3ea1e2f004657
>  1127  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --pri
>  1128  ??  Is     0:00.01 dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 16 --print-pid 18 
> p1 14:20 <tao2> [581]                                                
> 
> 
> 	I'm rebuilding hal; de-/re-installing.  See if the daemon fires
> 	up.  Nope, no hald......  
> 
> 	Ideas?
> 
> 	gary

You still don't have system dbus daemon running (should look
like /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system in `ps' output). Any errors
when starting it using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start ?


Yuri