From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 17 19:18:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194965E0 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:18:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kwm@rainbow-runner.nl) Received: from fep13.mx.upcmail.net (fep13.mx.upcmail.net [62.179.121.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606AA1A19 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge04.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.239]) by viefep13-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.8.01.05.05 201-2260-151-110-20120111) with ESMTP id <20130617191632.RSZI9252.viefep13-int.chello.at@edge04.upcmail.net>; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:16:32 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([178.84.132.32]) by edge04.upcmail.net with edge id pXGX1l01f0i5fp603XGX3D; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:16:32 +0200 X-SourceIP: 178.84.132.32 Message-ID: <51BF6091.4040904@rainbow-runner.nl> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:16:33 +0200 From: Koop Mast User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: Metacity fails after updates References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130617-1, 17-06-2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: "freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:18:48 -0000 On 14-6-2013 20:55, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I am no longer able to start Gnome on my desktop. I updated lot of the > ports while I was working remotely for a few months. When I got back, > metacity failed to start. My apps start and look OK, but with no window > manager, it's pretty useless. > > When it tries to start, metacity sends out the following: > metacity:ERROR:ui/ui.c:752:meta-_ui_get_default_icon: assertion failed: > (default_icon) > LibGTop-Server: pid 5978 received eof. > > This repeats every few seconds, ad infinitum. > > I have re-built metacity and all of its dependencies with no improvement > and i am baffled. > > I have a full Gnome installation running on FreeBSD 9.1-Stable (r249034). > All ports are up-to-date. Any ideas on where to look or what to kick? It > works fine on my other systems. No clue about this, but the function in your quoted line suggests something involved icons? I currently don't have a gnome2 desktop setup to test. -Koop