gnome help

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:39 -0600, freebsd at box201.com wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
>                 I did a portupgrade and now I'm broke. Something didn't
> build right and I don't know where to check. Everything said the build went
> ok except for linux-gtk which required linux-pango that has know
> vulnerabilities so that's ok I don't really need that. However, now the
> gnome session locks up my mouse and continually fails to load a file manager
> so it starts again and again until it fills the buffer or I kill the X
> server. Could someone help me figure out where to look and what to fix?

Make sure hald and dbus-daemon are running.  You should have:

hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"

In /etc/rc.conf.

It also looks like you're trying to run GNOME as root which is not a
good idea.  Try running it as a regular user.

Joe

> 
>  
> 
> Example startup:
> 
>  
> 
>  /home/user> startx
> 
> xauth:  creating new authority file /user/.serverauth.67450
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> X.Org X Server 1.6.1
> 
> Release Date: 2009-4-14
> 
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> 
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE i386
> 
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD lazerus.box201.com 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD
> 7.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan  7 02:34:35 MST 2009
> user at lazerus.box201.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAZERUS i386
> 
> Build Date: 21 July 2009  03:48:33PM
> 
>  
> 
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
> 
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> 
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> 
>         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> 
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> 
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Jul 25 12:18:40 2009
> 
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> 
> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
> 
> gnome-session[67473]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup
> session information for process '67473'
> 
> GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-uBfeUl/socket
> 
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-uBfeUl/socket.ssh
> 
> GNOME_KEYRING_PID=67485
> 
>  
> 
> ** (gnome-settings-daemon:67483): WARNING **: Connection failed
> 
>  
> 
> ** (gnome-settings-daemon:67483): WARNING **: Failed to connect context:
> Connection refused
> 
> Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
> /user/.config/metacity/sessions/10aaf9193ee33d96ee12485459281333800000674730
> 014.ms: Failed to open file
> '/user/.config/metacity/sessions/10aaf9193ee33d96ee1248545928133380000067473
> 0014.ms': No such file or directory
> 
> W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system
> is specified).
> 
> ** (gnome-volume-control-applet:67500): DEBUG: Disabling debugging
> 
>  
> 
> ** (gnome-power-manager:67496): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner
> of name 'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such name
> 
> ** (gnome-power-manager:67496): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon
> responsible for org.freedesktop.Hal is not running?
> 
>  
> 
> ** (gnome-power-manager:67496): WARNING **: Either HAL or DBUS are not
> working!
> 
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