From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 21:48:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9406016A4C9 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:48:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brown_philip@yahoo.com) Received: from web53005.mail.yahoo.com (web53005.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56F5743C9D for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:48:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brown_philip@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 42933 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Nov 2006 21:48:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20061130214829.42931.qmail@web53005.mail.yahoo.com> DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=XBp+Hjd5ylw/2+XoZbBSMouUEyI47VzUPck3qAAWKAMsZha/l0uCLCWkRnHqn1QvEXQ/TyT9aNsBndmuG40OepdVy9uPQfbwzEeVeZuEDfeYyuMQBK5TJzxpc24DsIT4Z7pd21ci4VWgmBqOtUeXwVeNyKBViC50YfrOGG7sjHw=; X-YMail-OSG: yFh1WBkVM1lrUrZKwNPxASv2_CLxZoLTI04ENxk0cpCnDqicXbUQcC5M5CufNo3H_w-- Received: from [194.247.235.23] by web53005.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:48:29 GMT Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:48:29 +0000 (GMT) From: philip brown To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <456F4FDC.2080702@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: user haldaemon does not exist 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: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:48:42 -0000 --- Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > philip brown wrote: > > I'm running 6.2 RC1 and I get the following error > > message (follows) when hald tries to start up. > > > > I added a regular user named "haldaemon" with > adduser > > and hald all worked fine. > > > > I also > > 1.) commented out cdrom device in /etc/fstab > > 2.) made sure /media folder existed > > 3.) pw group mod operator -m philip as in q.19 g2 > faq > > > > so I do have a working hald installation, however > I > > would like "haldaemon" as a system account (ie. > like > > www or uucp or pop). not like a regular end user > (ie. > > philip david dweezil moon_unit). > > > > I am relatively new to freebsd administration, can > > somebody please advise how I would achieve this. > > > > I would imagine on installation "haldaemon" should > > have been installed? > > How did you install hal? This user should be > created automatically by > the port and/or package. > > Joe > > - -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFb0/cb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkB/AJ0d5bdOHfR1iEXPmL6yZquqIxOmPQCbBJsq > jsZXlxH8/8sBdDNA4B2Susk= > =f2pO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > Just off the 6.2 RC1 cd packages... installed Freebsd with x and the after logging into x I ran sysinstall - configure packages - gnome gnome installation failed (dodgy disc i think) however it missed one package that I received manually via pkg_add -r gnome2. i forget which, however only 1 package which was a few hundred kB's thanks for quik response ICQ# 126468680www.icq.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com