From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 14:48:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A922106564A for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:48:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f14.google.com (mail-fx0-f14.google.com [209.85.220.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24F88FC1A for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:48:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so958309fxm.19 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:48:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mDFY6jnkVYJh+Rg8M4erEOuZ2wG83Q3ZUiJ3+HyXrI0=; b=DV/py2W8pzLPZRbYKVAgC1so3lviNE90WSXfwdYsaj6S7x7rrbzIZGoeQ/PJejar9N PU4KsMQg4VXzHqChpA/YDVHGaVDQ8FVP8m3cCq0oH7s3xbSr6OraO5I5gdFvkk0O2VNw SXaoQ+dfFfS8oFrIeBcYGL65SE1cpMlybNgRY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JD1GctR60l3ynxH3Ap4/3oW+F4LYWZy1ge2mMkBAOSFzYT4ZWncjGBAci289lAKrpf m5HV8p2c22rpAakCiBryWr1vQnZwxlhf7YjlYoLGrRZgloiplG5FKAqNLIX83GjArAyU yjixTwdOlWyKy0g+B419qsTuZCpKurfo+QVgs= Received: by 10.103.223.2 with SMTP id a2mr2134493mur.54.1234189569806; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:26:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ilras.barsh.com ([92.251.20.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9sm932081muf.38.2009.02.09.06.26.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:26:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49903D17.7040302@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:26:31 +0100 From: cwt User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090203) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Shterenlikht References: <4990094A.1080205@gmail.com> <20090209133615.GA82751@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090209133615.GA82751@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brent Clark , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: gdm wont start 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, 09 Feb 2009 14:48:34 -0000 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?