Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:52:43 +0200 From: Koop Mast <kwm@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Burns <mike@mike-burns.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM is slow to load and does not show any usernames Message-ID: <1245603163.9160.1.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090621160959.GJ26818@suspended.mike-burns.com> References: <20090621160959.GJ26818@suspended.mike-burns.com>
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On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:09 -0400, Mike Burns wrote: > A bit of a background on this system: freshly installed 7.2-RELEASE a week > ago, upgraded the OS to -STABLE and the ports to the latest as of Saturday. > The computer is a Thinkpad T500. > > [mike] ~% uname -a > FreeBSD battered.mike-burns.com 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sat Jun 20 > 11:04:19 EDT 2009 > root@battered.mike-burns.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BATTERED amd64 > > GDM has had two issues: > > * It takes a long time to show the login prompt. The leafy background > picture shows rather quickly, but a few moments pass before any widgets > are shown. This is in /var/log/messages (I stopped and started GDM by hand > just to get finer control over the log. This may have changed the things > that are logged; for example, the kvm_getenvv line might have a different > error message the first time GDM is started): > > Jun 21 12:00:39 battered sudo: mike : TTY=ttyp0 ; PWD=/usr/home/mike ; > USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm start > Jun 21 12:00:41 battered kernel: drm0: [ITHREAD] > Jun 21 12:00:53 battered gnome-session[1382]: WARNING: Application > 'metacity.desktop' failed to register before timeout > Jun 21 12:00:53 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1393/mem Please mount /proc, gnome needs this. Its also in the FAQ, and should resolve a lot of your problems. -Koop > Jun 21 12:00:53 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1393/mem > Jun 21 12:00:53 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1399/mem > Jun 21 12:01:03 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1392/mem > Jun 21 12:01:03 battered gdm-simple-greeter[1392]: WARNING: Unable to find > users: no seat-id found > Jun 21 12:01:03 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1399/mem > > * No usernames are offered in the widget; I have to click 'Other...' and > fill in my username myself. My UID is 1001. > > > Potentially related are these three GNOME issues. If they're unrelated > that's fine, I'll make another thread for them: > > * Once I type my username and password the widgets go away and I stare at a > leafy green background image for a few seconds, then GNOME starts. The > log from GNOME starting: > > Jun 21 12:04:13 battered gnome-keyring-daemon[1412]: couldn't allocate > secure memory to keep passwords and or keys from being written to the disk > Jun 21 12:04:14 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1416/mem > Jun 21 12:04:14 battered gnome-session[1416]: WARNING: Unable to determine > session: Unable to lookup session information for process '1416' > Jun 21 12:04:16 battered gnome-session[1416]: atk-bridge-WARNING: > AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup. > Jun 21 12:04:16 battered gnome-session[1416]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not > set. > Jun 21 12:04:16 battered gnome-session[1416]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not > locate registry > Jun 21 12:04:16 battered pulseaudio[1456]: main.c: High-priority scheduling > enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy. > Jun 21 12:04:28 battered gnome-session[1416]: WARNING: Application > 'metacity.desktop' failed to register before timeout > Jun 21 12:04:29 battered pulseaudio[1476]: pid.c: Daemon already running. > Jun 21 12:04:30 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1467/mem > Jun 21 12:04:30 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1470/mem > Jun 21 12:04:31 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1467/mem > Jun 21 12:04:31 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1470/mem > Jun 21 12:04:34 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1462/mem > Jun 21 12:05:08 battered console-kit-daemon[1202]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv > failed: cannot open /proc/1511/mem > > * The second time GDM or GNOME is started (such as when I bring down the > GDM daemon then bring it back up) every thing is very sluggish. Opening > new terminals, switching tabs or paging down in Galeon, etc. > > * GDM offers 'Restart' and 'Shutdown' buttons, but clicking those gives me > a dialog informing me that it failed to restart/shutdown. From within > GNOME I do not have a 'Shutdown' item under the System menu, _usually_. > Sometimes it shows up (I have yet to find any pattern), but the > resulting dialog does not offer 'Shutdown' or 'Restart'; instead it > offers 'Suspend', 'Hibernate', and 'Cancel' (only 'Cancel' works). >
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