From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 10 17:39:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D242B1065781 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:39:50 +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 92E528FC15 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:39:50 +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 o6AHdnh4009712 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:39:49 -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 o6AHdn8o028728 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:39:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C38B064.1000807@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:39:48 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD GNOME Users Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues 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, 10 Jul 2010 17:39:50 -0000 Okay, I have been spending time trying to recreate the problems people have been reporting with GNOME. The problems are: * polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 crashes at startup * gnome-panel takes too long to start * Workspace Switcher does not work Sadly, I was unable to recreate what I would consider any problems. I tested the following configurations: * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from July 4 with ports from July 4 * FreeBSD i386 -CURRENT from July 4 with ports from July 4 * FreeBSD amd64 -CURRENT from July 5 with ports from July 5 * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from June 17 with ports from June 18 (in VMWare Fusion 3.0 on a Mac) I tested by starting GNOME from GDM and using startx. My ~/.initrc has simply this: #!/bin/sh exec ck-launch-session gnome-session My locale is en_US.UTF-8. I have procfs mounted, and I can perform: ping `localhost` Successfully. I am not running ANY firewalls, and I have not enabled any blackholes for TCP or UDP. When I run GNOME from startx, I do see a delay of about 10 seconds while waiting for the panel to appear. This is because gnome-panel is trying to contact GDM to determine if shutdown/reboot support is enabled. This delay is expected in a startx configuration. Workspace Switcher has always worked for me. I tried switching workspaces with the keyboard shortcut and by clicking on the space in the lower panel. Both worked. I was also able to bring up properties, and add an additional workspace. I was able to see a problem with polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in ONE instance. A core was produced. This problem seems to occur when GDM switches the user to the logged in user. I didn't notice any other problems related to this, though. For those still seeing workspace switch problems, rebuild gnome-panel with debugging symbols, then bind gdb to workspace switcher, and get a backtrace when it appears to be hung up. That's after making sure all of the above is inline as much as possible with my test machines. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome