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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:08:27 -0500
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any clues hy Gnome isn't autobooting?
Message-ID:  <op.ttgb8dwe9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070605070901.GA3171@thought.org>
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:09:01 -0500, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>  =

wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:08:46AM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 14:40 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:12:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:48:46PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:=

>> > > > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:31:03 -0500, Gary Kline  =

>> <kline@tao.thought.org>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > >On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:57:53AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wro=
te:
>> > > > >>On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:51:24 -0500, Gary Kline  =

>> <kline@tao.thought.org>
>> > > > >>wrote:
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >>Do you have anything in ~/.xsession-errors?
>> > > > >
>> > > > >	Good one!
>> > > > >
>> > 	[[ ... ]]
>> >
>> > > >
>> > > > It shows that you don't have dbus, hal and etc running. Follow =
 =

>> this:
>> > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome
>> > > >
>> > > > Cheers,
>> > > > Mezz
>> > >
>> >
>> > 	No-joy.  I followed the "full-gnome" tag instructions to the
>> > 	letter.  Ran pkgdb -F twice, one portupgrade -a.  Upon reboot;
>> > 	same.  I wind up at a root login and have to use the kdm widget.
>> > 	Both hal and dbus are in /var/db. hal is missing from the ps ax
>> > 	listing; dbus is there.
>> >
>> >   621  ??  Is     0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/gdm-binary
>> > p1 14:20 <tao2> [579] psag hal
>> > p1 14:20 <tao2> [580] psag dbus
>> >  1126  ??  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch  =

>> 0630eeaa5fc7c9e3ea1e2f004657
>> >  1127  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork  =

>> --print-pid 6 --pri
>> >  1128  ??  Is     0:00.01 dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 16  =

>> --print-pid 18
>> > p1 14:20 <tao2> [581]
>> >
>> >
>> > 	I'm rebuilding hal; de-/re-installing.  See if the daemon fires
>> > 	up.  Nope, no hald......
>> >
>> > 	Ideas?
>> >
>> > 	gary
>>
>> You still don't have system dbus daemon running (should look
>> like /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system in `ps' output). Any errors
>> when starting it using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start ?
>
>
> 	A "% dbus<cr>" did nothing; I didn't know there was a dbus script
> 	is /usr/local/etc/rc.d.... and will fire it off.
>
> 	#
> 	dbus_enable=3D"YES"
> 	#
> 	Well, I added this to /etc/conf, rebooted and still nada; then I

Is it a typo? It should be /etc/rc.conf.

> 	checked the log in /var/log and saw that something  was still
> 	pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin.  X is now in local.  I thought that
> 	was fixed... .  Anyway, I de-/re-installed both gnome2 and
> 	the meta port xorg.
>
> 	Dunno; I just cd'd to usr/local and did a grep -r -w X11R6; there
> 	are thousands of X11R6 regex's in places.     In
> 	var/log/debug.log is the following:

Does your system has /usr/X11R6 symlink to /usr/local?

> Jun  5 00:04:06 tao2 sshd[18092]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis,  =

> group_compat, endgrent, not found
> Jun  5 00:04:06 tao2 sshd[18093]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis,  =

> passwd_compat, endpwent, not found
> Jun  5 00:04:19 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis,  =

> passwd_compat, setpwent, not found
> Jun  5 00:04:19 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compa=
t,  =

> setgrent, not found
> Jun  5 00:04:21 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis,  =

> passwd_compat, setpwent, not found
> Jun  5 00:04:21 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compa=
t,  =

> setgrent, not found
> Jun  5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compa=
t,  =

> setgrent, not found
> Jun  5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compa=
t,  =

> endgrent, not found
> tao2#

It looks like you have installed FreeBSD with NO_NIS=3Dyes? If you do, r=
ead  =

in nsswitch.conf(5) and it said:

NOTES
      If system got compiled with NO_NIS you have to remove `nis' entrie=
s.

Cheers,
Mezz


> 	A last rebbot and I'm calling it a day...  If you [[ or Anybody ]]
> 	has any clues, please drop them my way!
>
> 	gary
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Yuri


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