GNOME can work well in VMWare but cannot work in real machine

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 6/14/10 9:50 PM, Lingfeng Xiong wrote:
> hi there,
> I found a strange thing. As I described, my GNOME cannot work with
> these error messages:
> gnome-session[69785]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup ses
> sion information for process '69785'
> ** (gnome-panel:69812): WARNING **: Could not ask session manager if shut down i
> s available: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote applic
> ation did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, t
> he reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
> 
> 
> And gnome-panel has a very very slow responding. And also, the driver
> cannot be mounted without any error message. The thread about this
> problem with more information is here:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15013
> 
> I has performed a test, and found that GNOME can work well in my
> VMWare!! But in my real machine, no matter how many times I
> reinstalled my system, it cannot work.
> Could you help me? thx!!

Make sure your machine's hostname is resolvable, and make sure you are
running gdm.  Gdm will provide GNOME the ability to reboot and shutdown.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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