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Hi,

On Tuesday 24 January 2012 05:16:18 EBRIMA F M SAWANEH wrote:
> Hi
> I have been using Virtual box to run FreeBSD and now that I have a machine
> for it, I proceeded to do the installation there.
> However, after doing the post installation, Gnome will not start and I
> noticed the following message during the booting:
> Starting dbus.
> /etc/rc: WARNING:  $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5)

you need these entries in rc.conf to run GNOME & Co.

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

When GNOME still does not start, use first a simple window manager or plain X to see where the errors is hidden.

Erich