From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 18:16:17 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 67D381065675 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:16:17 +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 1F3E28FC15 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:16:16 +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 o6UIGFe8008976; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:16:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-64-102-220-189.cisco.com (dhcp-64-102-220-189.cisco.com [64.102.220.189]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6UIGESE026205; Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:16:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C5316ED.3030702@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:16:13 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Fitzgerald References: <000001cb2f8e$1e2eb4b0$5a8c1e10$@com.au> <4C524EEF.90804@freebsd.org> <000001cb2fbd$8bb1f090$a315d1b0$@com.au> In-Reply-To: <000001cb2fbd$8bb1f090$a315d1b0$@com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Splash screen half-completed FBSD8.1 build 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: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:16:17 -0000 On 7/30/10 4:02 AM, Ian Fitzgerald wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Marcus Clarke [mailto:marcus@freebsd.org] > Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 2:03 PM > To: Ian Fitzgerald > Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Splash screen half-completed FBSD8.1 build > > On 7/29/10 10:22 PM, Ian Fitzgerald wrote: >> I assume this is the correct group. Redirect me if not. >> >> >> >> If have looked through my previous messages, but have not found a > reference >> to this. May have missed it. >> >> >> >> Upgraded FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.1 by clean install from DVD. Previous version of >> gnome2 on FBSD8 was successful. >> >> Starting hald, dbus, gnome from enabling in /etc/rc.conf >> >> On boot, gets as far as green corduroy, central window with toggle-able OS >> message, no writable icon for login. >> >> Lower tool bar includes from right, switch for restart/power-off (both >> non-effective), clock, daVinci universal man icon which responds with a >> menu. >> >> >> >> No top menu bar. >> >> >> >> Where do I start to look? >> >> Make sure procfs is mounted. >> >> Joe >> >> -- >> Joe Marcus Clarke >> FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org >> FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome > > Thank you, that works. > Wiki suggests "Note that in FreeBSD procfs is being gradually phased out". > Is that the reason it is not a part of the distributed fstab? Yes. It is being phased out of GNOME, too, but it's not gone yet. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome