wrong time stamp 1 JAN 1970 on /var/tmp/orbit-<user>

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:26:26PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:52 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > I use FBSD 6.4-stable alpha. When starting a browser (firefox2 or kazehakase) no window
> > is open, instead:
> > 
> > GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session)
> > 
> > and wrong date on /var/tmp/orbit-mexas (my username)
> > 
> > % ls -al /var/tmp/
> > total 28
> > drwxrwxrwt   7 root   wheel  512 18 Feb 15:48 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  25 root   wheel  512 18 Feb 14:43 ..
> > srwxrwxrwx   1 mexas  wheel    0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-KXVAJaE3A4
> > srwxrwxrwx   1 mexas  wheel    0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-l8TP5ypEB0
> > srwxrwxrwx   1 mexas  wheel    0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-nUZBGPeroY
> > drwx------   2 root   wheel  512 18 Sep 12:50 gconfd-root
> > drwx------   2 mexas  wheel  512  1 Jan  1970 orbit-mexas
> >                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > drwx------   2 root   wheel  512 18 Sep 12:50 orbit-root
> > drwxrwxrwt   5 mexas  wheel  512  5 Feb 21:23 texfonts
> > drwxrwxrwt   2 root   wheel  512 18 Feb 15:48 vi.recover
> > % 
> > 
> > I've in /etc/rc.conf
> > 
> > dbus_enable="YES"
> > hald_enable="YES"
> > 
> > and I've many dbus-launch and dbus-daemon processes:
> > 
> > # ps ax|grep dbus
> >   594  ??  Is     0:00.05 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> > 50289  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi
> > 52477  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi
> > 52947  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi
> > 50273  p1  I      0:00.05 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> > 50285  p1  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> > 52943  p1  I      0:00.06 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> > 52946  p1  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> > 53487  p2  R+     0:00.00 grep dbus
> > # 
> > 
> > each time I try to launch a browser another couple of dbus processes
> > are started, but never exit.
> 
> Make sure you're starting your X session with dbus-launch.  For example:
> 
> dbus-launch --exit-with-session fvwm

I've:

% cat $HOME/.xsession
dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/local/bin/mwm

when I connect to the xdm via XDMCP, I can login, but the mouse doesn't
respond to clicks, so I cannot start xterm or anything else.

% ps ax | grep dbus
  594  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system
  905  ??  I      0:00.04 dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/local/bin/mwm
  908  ??  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/local/bin/mwm
  909  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --pri
  965  p0  R+     0:00.00 grep dbus
%

many thanks
anton

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