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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:07:57 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Jeffrey S. Racine" <racinej@mcmaster.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgraded to gnome 2.24, gdm not allowing logins... hal related?
Message-ID:  <1231783677.38195.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1231778723.946.11.camel@pc-racine1.economics.mcmaster.ca>
References:  <1231778723.946.11.camel@pc-racine1.economics.mcmaster.ca>

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On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:45 -0500, Jeffrey S. Racine wrote:
> Hi.
>=20
> I upgraded to gnome 2.24 on a FreeBSD 7.1 system (read and
> followed /usr/ports/UPDATING) to gnome 2.24.=20
>=20
> All went well, no errors reported.
>=20
> However, gdm no longer is allowing logins. I enter my username and it
> just returns to the login screen. Booting in single user mode allows me
> to run gnome via startx with no problems. All looks good.

Did you rebuild gnome-session after rebuilding all ports:

portupgrade -f gnome-session

> =20
>=20
> However, /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1 tells me
>=20
> libhal.c 3476 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=3DConnection is
> closed
> process 915: arguments to dbus_connection_get_dispatch_status() were
> incorrect, assertion "connection !=3D NULL" failed in file
> dbus-connection.c line 4108.
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> I checked out the hal faq and running lshal produces
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> error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to
> connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or
> directory.

It looks like dbus is not running.  Did you set:

dbus_enable=3D"YES"

In /etc/rc.conf?

Joe

>=20
> Recompiling bdus and hal does not appear to help. Any pointers would be
> most appreciated.
>=20
> Also, one minor typo in http://www.freebsd.org//gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1
> There should be no .sh in lines two and three below it would appear.
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> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh start
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-dnsconfd.sh start
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start
>=20
> Thanks for the assistance, and thanks to all for this upgrade!
>=20
> -- Jeff
>       =20
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