From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 22:12:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D509D106566C for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62538FC15 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:12:15 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5JMCEOK027451; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:12:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5JMCEtf018586; Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:12:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C1D40BD.2000207@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:12:13 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bear References: , <4C171C41.1080405@freebsd.org>, <201006160003293357455@Gmail.com>, <4C17A631.5060407@freebsd.org>, <201006160113087580919@Gmail.com> <201006171452210332793@Gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201006171452210332793@Gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome Subject: Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but cannot work in real machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:12:16 -0000 On 6/17/10 2:52 AM, Bear wrote: > hi, Er... I tried but I still dont know how to build gnome-session > with debug symbol... I only can type in 'make config' in the folder > of gnome-panel. I will give you the backtrack later but accorading to > my analysis, I think this is a problem related to dbus or polkit. > Because it looks that most of the programs which depand on dbus have > problems. For example, not only gnome-panl but also > gnome-keyring-daemon and other applications also show this message in > console. And also, when I click on a non-FreeBSD partition, no window > would shown. If I wait for more than 5min it would show a error > message window read 'No Response'(I cannot remember the exact mesage > but I know its a very long error message with hal no response). It does sound like a dbus problem. Can I get remote access to this machine? Joe > > ------------------ Bear 2010-06-17 > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-06-16 06:42:02 To:Bear > CC:freebsd-gnome Subject:Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but cannot > work in real machine > > On 6/15/10 1:13 PM, Bear wrote: >> hi, I have done this. I created a new account named 'test' but it >> still have this problem... > > Can you rebuild gnome-panel and gnome-session with debugging > symbols, then attach gdb while gnome-panel is "hung?" Once attached, > run "bt" to get a backtrace. That may help isolate the problem. > > Joe > >> >> ------------------ Bear 2010-06-16 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> From:Joe Marcus Clarke Send Date:2010-06-16 00:11:32 To:Bear >> CC:freebsd-gnome Subject:Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but >> cannot work in real machine >> >> 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 >>> >> >> > > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome