Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:26:31 +0100 From: cwt <marshc187@gmail.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: Brent Clark <brentgclarklist@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gdm wont start Message-ID: <49903D17.7040302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090209133615.GA82751@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <4990094A.1080205@gmail.com> <20090209133615.GA82751@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:45:30PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > >> Hiya >> >> I upgraded to 7.1 and did a portupgrade and I think I broke something >> and for the likes of me .. I dont know how to fix this. >> >> I havnt changed my /etc/rc.conf, and it all looks the same / untouched. >> >> When ever I restart gdm I get the following. >> >> ** (gdm-binary:2646): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed >> to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or >> directory >> >> %grep gdm /etc/rc.conf >> gdm_enable="YES" >> >> If anyone could assist I would really appreciate the assistance. >> > > similar things happended to me with firefox and kazehakase ports. > I never figured it out. I blame dbus and hal ports, but couldn't > investigate this fully as after the 23-24 Jan port upgrages my > X failed alltogether. > > on a similar problem with new gdm and dbus errors, i deleted/moved (backuped) all folders that have to do with .gconf or .gtk from my home directory. something worked for me, but i have no idea which. give it a try and see how it goes?
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