From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 17:42:21 2007 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 8D79116A418 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:42:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACDA13C448 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:42:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20071001174221.FODX11877.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:42:21 -0400 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id v5iK1X00C4iy4EG0000000; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:42:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:46:28 -0500 To: jahnke@sonatabio.com From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1191172047.16238.9.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1191172047.16238.9.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.23 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Metacity not loading 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: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:42:21 -0000 On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:07:27 -0500, Frank Jahnke wrote: > Metacity no longer loads for me as a regular user who is a member of the > wheel group. It does for root. Any ideas what might be causing this? > > It started about three or four weeks ago when I was playing with wine. > Thereafter, in retrospect, metacity has not loaded. In the mean while I > have updated to xorg 7.3 and Gnome 2.20, thinking erroneously that one > of these may have been the cause. I am on 6.2-R-p7 with the nVidia > driver 1.0.9639. > > Metacity itself has the correct permissions. Loading it from a terminal > window (as a non-root user) once Gnome has loaded corrects the various > and sundry issues as you would expect. I start gnome using "startx" and ---------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^ Have you read in the /usr/ports/UPDATING (20070913) about xorg 7.3 vs nvidia-driver? You have to start xorg by 'startx -- -ignoreABI' and make sure the Composite extension is disable. If you still have problem, then I have no idea. Cheers, Mezz > not gdm; .xinitrc simply contains "exec gnome-session." The expected > services are started in rc.conf. > > Any guidance would be most appreciated. > > Frank -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org