From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 16:58:36 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 1A060106566B for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:58:36 +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 CF1D88FC0A for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:58:35 +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 oA5GwYBY026467; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:58:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 96-24-64-4.sfo.clearwire-wmx.net (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA5GwXSQ020670; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:58:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4CD437B8.5040500@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:58:32 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Cloutier References: <4CD399BC.7000602@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <4CD399BC.7000602@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desperately need some success 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, 05 Nov 2010 16:58:36 -0000 On 11/5/10 1:44 AM, Tom Cloutier wrote: > Admittedly I am a rank amateur when it comes to FreeBSD. I have spent > hours trying to get 8.1 with gnome installed. By way of contrast, the > installation of PCBSD went flawlessly and took about an hour. > Unfortunately, I don't want to run KDE or PCBSD. > > At this point I can boot to the green leaf of death with a FreeBSD8.1 > splash screen displayed and a toolbar at the bottom with the Access, > clock, and shutdown icons displayed. The Access tools work, but shutdown > does not. I can change the text message under the icon in splash screen > by clicking with mouse. > > What do you suggest? It seems I am close, but surer would like to get > beyond endless installation trials. First, make sure procfs is mounted on /proc. This is a biggie. Nothing will work until that happens. Once you do that, go ahead and reboot, then see if the problems persist. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome