Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:46:28 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: jahnke@sonatabio.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Metacity not loading Message-ID: <op.tzi4zqpb9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <1191172047.16238.9.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> References: <1191172047.16238.9.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com>
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:07:27 -0500, Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> 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
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