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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 6/15/10 12:03 PM, Bear wrote:
> hi, Yes of course I am sure that my hostname is reslovable. I used to
> install GDM but it still has this problem. And also, I dont wanna
> install it because I *DO NOT* need it.

You might try creating a virgin account on the problem machine, and see
if the problem follows the account.  That is, a new account may not see
any problem.

Joe

> 
> ------------------ Bear 2010-06-16
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------- 
> From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-06-15 14:23:03 To:Lingfeng
> Xiong CC:freebsd-gnome Subject:Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but
> cannot work in real machine
> 
> 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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