Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:37:59 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any clues hy Gnome isn't autobooting? Message-ID: <20070605233759.GA10157@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <op.ttgb8dwe9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <op.ts9h7j0a9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20070602235124.GA82026@thought.org> <op.ttcuqrq09aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20070603233103.GA91077@thought.org> <op.ttdovkur9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20070604061244.GD93299@thought.org> <20070604214046.GA256@thought.org> <1181005726.997.4.camel@darklight> <20070605070901.GA3171@thought.org> <op.ttgb8dwe9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:08:27AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:09:01 -0500, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> > wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:08:46AM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote: > >>On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 14:40 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >>> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:12:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >>> > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:48:46PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: [[ save the electrons ]] > >>> > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome > >>> > > > >>> > > Cheers, > >>> > > Mezz > >>> > > >>> > >>> No-joy. I followed the "full-gnome" tag instructions to the > >>> letter. Ran pkgdb -F twice, one portupgrade -a. Upon reboot; > >>> same. I wind up at a root login and have to use the kdm widget. > >>> Both hal and dbus are in /var/db. hal is missing from the ps ax > >>> listing; dbus is there. > >>> [[ save the electrons ]] > >>> Ideas? > >>> > >>> gary > >> > >>You still don't have system dbus daemon running (should look > >>like /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system in `ps' output). Any errors > >>when starting it using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start ? > > > > > > A "% dbus<cr>" did nothing; I didn't know there was a dbus script > > is /usr/local/etc/rc.d.... and will fire it off. > > > > # > > dbus_enable="YES" > > # > > Well, I added this to /etc/conf, rebooted and still nada; then I > > Is it a typo? It should be /etc/rc.conf. Ja, me-a the culpa. .... > > > checked the log in /var/log and saw that something was still > > pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin. X is now in local. I thought that > > was fixed... . Anyway, I de-/re-installed both gnome2 and > > the meta port xorg. > > > > Dunno; I just cd'd to usr/local and did a grep -r -w X11R6; there > > are thousands of X11R6 regex's in places. In > > var/log/debug.log is the following: > > Does your system has /usr/X11R6 symlink to /usr/local? I ran the shell script in UPDATING; it completed. Yhere was something strange that I yelped to -questions about. After zero replies,, I created to missing symlinks to some /usr/X11R6/lib/* and then stuff began working. Is there a way of checkinf for the zillions of symbolic links or should I just re-run the script? ((If/next time I'll run with /bin/sh -x)) > > >Jun 5 00:04:06 tao2 sshd[18092]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, > >group_compat, endgrent, not found > >Jun 5 00:04:06 tao2 sshd[18093]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, > >passwd_compat, endpwent, not found > >Jun 5 00:04:19 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, > >passwd_compat, setpwent, not found > >Jun 5 00:04:19 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, > >setgrent, not found > >Jun 5 00:04:21 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, > >passwd_compat, setpwent, not found > >Jun 5 00:04:21 tao2 ls: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, > >setgrent, not found > >Jun 5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, > >setgrent, not found > >Jun 5 00:04:39 tao2 su: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, > >endgrent, not found > >tao2# > > It looks like you have installed FreeBSD with NO_NIS=yes? If you do, read > in nsswitch.conf(5) and it said: > > NOTES > If system got compiled with NO_NIS you have to remove `nis' entries. > Hmm, I see that Garrett Cooper has NO_NIS=no in /etc/make.conf, so that should settle that. I've also grep'd around/etc and nothing looks suspicious. --All the nis_* flags are either NULL or NO. (tao//newtao is/will be where I hang out; different with my DNS box.) Arrrg,me hearties! me still be lost! [1] > Cheers, > Mezz > [1] lost andor braindead. after 4 hours of severe writing my brain was gng to explode or shoulder fall off -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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