From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 06:23:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822D11065670 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:23:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFBF8FC22 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:23:01 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5F6N0wd021114; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:23:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5F6MwRF011113; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:22:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C171C41.1080405@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:22:57 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lingfeng Xiong References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME can work well in VMWare but cannot work in real machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:23:02 -0000 On 6/14/10 9:50 PM, Lingfeng Xiong wrote: > hi there, > I found a strange thing. As I described, my GNOME cannot work with > these error messages: > gnome-session[69785]: WARNING: Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup ses > sion information for process '69785' > ** (gnome-panel:69812): WARNING **: Could not ask session manager if shut down i > s available: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote applic > ation did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, t > he reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. > > > And gnome-panel has a very very slow responding. And also, the driver > cannot be mounted without any error message. The thread about this > problem with more information is here: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15013 > > I has performed a test, and found that GNOME can work well in my > VMWare!! But in my real machine, no matter how many times I > reinstalled my system, it cannot work. > Could you help me? thx!! Make sure your machine's hostname is resolvable, and make sure you are running gdm. Gdm will provide GNOME the ability to reboot and shutdown. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome