From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 15:48:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8211065672 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:48:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hskuhra@fastmail.fm) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E598D8FC19 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9912220CEE for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:30:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from web1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.211]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:30:11 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= message-id:from:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:subject:in-reply-to:date:references; s=mesmtp; bh= iUD/ssYO5LaQ22lw18mIyl3jGWA=; b=VD22JeV40HwsMmVOtp6fKQlvE2B/rY+P 6n8AuQoW5xWNsgh55wUOpbqhli691YW1nNXgIBb7eK+rjpYLDkjiCy/Dm0l8vokG Qk3Pah9NFUE6g/NUsCLRc0jGLsi1Oj/P1GCcJ4ED2XOu9Qmu8VMP/y9pjkkVXV/A q+oX+x/83cQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:in-reply-to:date :references; s=smtpout; bh=iUD/ssYO5LaQ22lw18mIyl3jGWA=; b=VFvj6 z4ewN9R+laFelFOdxb9d95OX2tk6wVmLUTgd/0uoDuWh8Avs+rp+qcZwIefRJqA9 3RVlaDgXU+AgV/pJxXE62N3u7IhU8APRiBz8XikE18ts34VLCEkMqtuxGAWiBImx 5wRmx4u02K2NT6ehjytcc0O4icY4RALl0a9iUs= Received: by web1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 695C6A000A1; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:30:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1329751811.17948.140661038912057@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: YNcTBfG4B/Or+Uby16XGUDfbQLQ3ABoi/kLMs+/OZko4 1329751811 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface In-Reply-To: <20120216024408.GA57917@sputnjik.localdomain> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:30:11 +0100 References: <20120215165738.75518ea9@cox.net><20120216024408.GA57917@sputnjik.localdomain> Subject: Re: How to prevent gam_server from running? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:48:07 -0000 On Thu, Feb 16, 2012, at 03:44, Nikola Pavlovi=C4=87 wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:57:38PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which > > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem > > to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and > > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > >=20 >=20 > PolicyKit is like that too. :) >=20 > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I > > can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether > > it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool > > somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it! :-) >=20 > It's not just desktop environments, a huge amount of 'normal' ports > depend on > it. I'm running a bare bones window manager and can't get rid of it. > At first I thought polkit and gam_server were some kind of leftovers > from a couple of months long experiment with KDE4, but after I made sure > every last bit of KDE was gone from the system (it was like trying > to kill those packs of core hounds in Molten Core[1]; older WoW players > will appreciate the analogy) and tired to remove them, this is what I > got (and still get; some of the more amusing dependants marked): Hmm, maybe glib20/_glib20 is wrongly used in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk and/or the port Makefiles. e.g: accessibility/atk, devel/gobject- introspection and graphics/cairo list glib20 (instead of _glib20) in USE_GNOME. So you can't even install accessibility/atk without devel/gamin. :-( --=20 Herbert