Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 19:39:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Summarize the reports of GNOME crashes Message-ID: <980277.32649.qm@web52908.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2E9FC9.5010704@freebsd.org>
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--- On Fri, 7/2/10, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote:
> First, have all users experiencing this installed
> EVERYTHING from packages?
Yes, I see this problem when installing EVERYTHING with pkg_add. See below.
> That is, if a user builds all GNOME bits
> from ports do they see the problem?
Yes, I see this problem also when installing EVERYTHING from ports.
> Are all users seeing slowness or crashes in GNOME
> using startx (or some other non-GDM way of starting
> GNOME)?
Yes, I see slowness when launching gnome with startx.
> If a user using packages starts GNOME with GDM, does the
> problem go away?
Sort of. If I start gnome using GDM, there is no slowness; however, there is a worse problem: the gnome applets do not work. i.e. when I set the number of workspaces using the applet, my commands are ignored.
Thank you for looking into this. You will see this problem too if you follow these steps:
1. Buy a HP Z800 computer
2. Boot to FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 DVD
3. Install FreeBSD kern-developer
4. portsnap fetch extract
5. pkg_add -r xorg
6. pkg_add -r gnome2
7. add gnome_enable="YES" to rc.conf
8. add /proc to /etc/fstab
9. Fix my.domain references in /etc/hosts
10. Reboot and login
Chris
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