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Date:      Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:10:48 +0700
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome will not start
Message-ID:  <201201240810.49072.erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
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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



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