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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:43:24 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Wilde, Donald" <dwilde@sandia.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X.org fails after 2.12. upgrade
Message-ID:  <1132361004.55741.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A017B7D10@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>
References:  <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A017B7D10@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>

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On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 08:16 -0700, Wilde, Donald wrote:
> I did another cvsup last night (11/17, ports only) and followed that
> with portupgrade --all and sh gnome_upgrade.sh. All scripts finished
> with zero errors, but the same messages still appear.
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> To recap my current state:
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> RELENG_5 on i386, aka 5.4-STABLE as of 11/15
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> However, although X.org starts now, Gnome does not. The first time, the
> splash screen loads on a gray background, and then an error box shows up
> in the upper left corner.
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> The error message is:
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> The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
> Failed to activate 'OAFID: GNOME_SettingsDaemon'
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> After CTRL-ALT-BKSP, I see, 5 times repeated,=20
> Gnome_message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
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> and then I see "The application 'gnome-session' lost its connection..."
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> I have not heard back from anyone as to the solution to this problem, so
> I've subscribed. I'll see list-posted responses now.

You haven't heard anything back because this is most likely a problem
specific to your server.  There are a few FAQ questions that touch on
common problems starting GNOME at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html.  Have you gone through all
of those steps to try and figure out what is happening?

Joe

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