Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:15:03 HST From: knowtree@aloha.com To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot get gnome started Message-ID: <200512221915.jBMJF3b24328@yoda.pixi.com>
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I had Gnome 2.10 working well on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. Had a few problems
upgrading to 2.12, but eventually got the update script to complete without
error. However, I have no way to start gnome. I have gdm_enable="YES" in my
/etc/rc.conf, but I can't find gdm anywhere.
I no longer have /usr/X11R6/sbin, where gdm and its siblings lived. If I do
locate gdm I still have /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf and a bunch of stuff
under my home, but no application.
The handbook describes a manual start:
:Once you have the GNOME 2.12 desktop installed, GNOME 2.12
:can be started by adding the following line to ~/.xsession
:or ~/.xinitrc, as appropriate:
:
:exec gnome-session
I have no gnome-session on my system. If I do a locate the results are
similar to gdm; lots of support files but no executables.
I decided to install the x11/gnomesession port. It wants to install
samba-libsmbclient. That fails during configuration, claiming that FreeBSD
does not do file locking: "checking configuration summary... ERROR: No
locking available. Running Samba would be unsafe."
This morning I upgraded to 5.4-STABLE, hoping that this would satisfy the
fcntl test script, but it did not help.
I keep my ports tree on an NFS share. I don't think this is the problem
because the test file the script creates is on /tmp.
Any suggestions?
Gary Dunn
Honolulu
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