From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 25 12:52:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0962106568F for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:52:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFEE8FC15 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:52:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: FROM itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu [141.213.135.249]) By hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4ABCB881.23968.1046 ; Authuser web; 25 Sep 2009 08:33:05 EDT Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:32:22 -0400 From: William Bulley To: Giuseppe Pagnoni Message-ID: <20090925123222.GA1176@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Giuseppe Pagnoni , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11 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: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:52:10 -0000 According to Giuseppe Pagnoni on Fri, 09/25/09 at 03:32: > > I am trying to use hal/dbus on a i386 machine with FreeBSD 7.2 (ports > updated to the latest tree snapshot as of yesterday), but despite > spending a full day looking up the handbook, faq, and google, I cannot > make it work properly. More specifically, when I use either xfce4 or > xmonad after having enabled dbus/hald in rc.conf: > > hald_enable="YES" > dbus_enable="YES" > > both window managers become very unresponsive and hang as if hal was > trying to access/mount something. For example, the terminal may take > *seconds* to display typed in characters and in xfce if you click on > the desktop icons for home directory etc., they don't open up at all > in the thunar file manager (they do though, if you right click on them > and choose 'open'). I, too, have seen this same problem, but with OpenMotif (mwm) as my window manager. I have solved the problem by changing the lines: dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" to dbus_enable="NO" hald_enable="NO" in my /etc/rc.conf file. This makes things in xorg-7.4_2 and open-motif-2.2.3_6 and 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 15 14:33:54 EDT 2009 work for me. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|