From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 11 13:43:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690AC266 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:43:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm7-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm7-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7F6B2C for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.82.105.245] by nm7.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Jan 2013 13:43:43 -0000 Received: from [217.146.188.166] by tm17.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Jan 2013 13:43:43 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp134.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Jan 2013 13:43:43 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1357911823; bh=uMHu0nCT/LVg5iyXghVdssCiWLZ95TVxNIDa8fL5KWo=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=PdqCtJYZUbOJDqHQnQR+wsaS6yfgdbw/asqYba4G9x3puy/UIKK5DI10ULUfc7ZDqoh3HA+hWShqiRS4BcOOskfMKkGSry6eNKM+D0qqVhfMjZzrY/0QR5yM5bEeIhHMgUSIrotQaIk/OZoJOum3b7rOrTatvXxqrTJX6Lfn7WQ= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 53412.93277.bm@smtp134.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: jfWbfx0VM1lpNAf3RIWBhmpyFbSxCxi3j_vq.AD6mrAmPI4 Vg_8aQsAybsqM2FcWPUpRKdxzkmXcMhrUhCqH36rPTJsobNfhqbEOnx7gLJo XV5TM_CSPSR6Tq4Dex3D_81gOoArFx.cYcdTiJe6DxM_F8gUeRIb6K4e8wXc VwpDURv4hW3riSw_CffKQw9W.fEwlhM3uc9fnwEKJarTj5ak.ZGCir.y05Jp 0EU1O4xVey0FB1uljbP9L77X7nP9Vko8.HrTU5TEoauRCvj4luWOxJdyTkC_ .tmkSNQwxT.DtlegvJMjw_Vi3GbBax_wlZX7MaJ32Zc9DlhMNl9RL1SoBuNn l91YXSO2PMktxEXCaYzz9CkWYgmoaspu6FCUucHvctaBQYWAclDKEMa_.L2d 34hU4sn7tLksmPDwHf7NQvXZFjpKn6uySiKs4hP0lhmY- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [78.50.21.255] (ralf.mardorf@78.50.21.255 with login) by smtp134.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2013 05:43:42 -0800 PST Message-ID: <1357911822.3856.31.camel@q> Subject: Starting the desktop environment doesn't work automatically From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:43:42 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:43:52 -0000 Hi :) I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 and installed Xfce4 and GDM2 from ports. Without GDM I need to run startx manually to start Xfce. If I enable GDM, it will start automatically, it displays the user, but the input field to type the password is missing. There's no difference with or without a mounted proc, with or without "gnome_enable="YES". Perhaps I missed to mount proc and to enable GNOME at the same time, I'll try this later. Any hints are welcome. FWIW this might be related to the issue: Thunar doesn't mount devices, such as USB sticks. I only can log out, but restart and shutdown aren't available for Xfce, they are shadowed. I don't think it's related, but when I installed Xfce I got "gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.6: Needs cairo build with X11 support.", I build gtk-update-icon-cache and continued with Xfce after that, but missed to rebuild cairo. I later today will run # cd /usr/ports/graphics/cairo # make deinstall # make reinstall Do I need to reinstall gtk-update-icon-cache and Xfce too? The problem is, that I need the computer for work and building X, Xfce and GDM did take around 12 hours on a dual-core Athlon 2.1 GHz with 4 GB RAM, during this time I can't run Linux to work. It wasn't possible, resp. I wasn't able to automatically use the default configurations, btw. in this case an advantage, since I need to compile without pulseaudio support. Regards, Ralf