Metacity fails after updates

[Koop Mast]

On 14-6-2013 20:55, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I am no longer able to start Gnome on my desktop. I updated  lot of the
> ports while I was working remotely for a few months. When I got back,
> metacity failed to start. My apps start and look OK, but with no window
> manager, it's pretty useless.
>
> When it tries to start, metacity sends out the following:
> metacity:ERROR:ui/ui.c:752:meta-_ui_get_default_icon: assertion failed:
> (default_icon)
> LibGTop-Server: pid 5978 received eof.
>
> This repeats every few seconds, ad infinitum.
>
> I have re-built metacity and all of its dependencies with no improvement
> and i am baffled.
>
> I have a full Gnome installation running on FreeBSD 9.1-Stable (r249034).
> All ports are up-to-date. Any ideas on where to look or what to kick? It
> works fine on my other systems.

No clue about this, but the function in your quoted line suggests 
something involved icons? I currently don't have a gnome2 desktop setup 
to test.

-Koop