Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 03:24:34 -0500 From: Sergei Akhmatdinov <sakhmatd@riseup.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop Message-ID: <20170117032253.13a3587f@riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <45c5ea44-e0b4-2698-da8e-707c507eb086@holgerdanske.com> References: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com> <20170116230336.2cc22d94@riseup.net> <45c5ea44-e0b4-2698-da8e-707c507eb086@holgerdanske.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I apologize for the recent double-post, sent from both email addresses by accident. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:00:31 -0800 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > I generated xorg.conf.new per the manual section 5.4.8: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html The handbook is slightly out of date. Get rid of any generated Xorg.conf files, startx *should* work out of the box. In fact, in a lot of machines, X -configure is harmful and breaks X while autoconfigure works just fine. If startx doesn't work out of the box, all the tweaks should be done in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d > Can I replace my /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following? > > # /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/dpchrist.conf > > Section "Files" > FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/dejavu/" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "freetype" > EndSection Yes, just name your file something like 20-dpchrist.conf. But I reccomend 20-fonts.conf so you know what the file does. > > As far as your qeustions go... > > > > Do you have both hald and dbus running? > > How do I determine if both hald and dbus are running? All of your start-up services should be in your rc.conf. > > Please provide your /etc/rc.conf > > toor@freebsd:/root # cat /etc/rc.conf > clear_tmp_enable="YES" > hostname="freebsd" > ifconfig_em0="DHCP" > # local_unbound requires forwarders to support DNSSEC, and AT&T gateway does > # not: > # local_unbound_enable="YES" > sshd_enable="YES" > ntpd_enable="YES" > powerd_enable="YES" > # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable > dumpdev="AUTO" > zfs_enable="YES" Doesn't look like you have hald and/or dbus. Add both. You need dbus for Firefox and a few other programs to work anyway. XFCE uses HAL and DBUS along with PolKit to provide unprivileged shutdown. Add hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" Then either reboot or run # service hald start # service dbus start > Add the suggested lines: > > toor@freebsd:/etc # vi rc.conf > clear_tmp_enable="YES" > hostname="freebsd" > ifconfig_em0="DHCP" > # local_unbound requires forwarders to support DNSSEC, and AT&T gateway does > # not: > # local_unbound_enable="YES" > sshd_enable="YES" > ntpd_enable="YES" > powerd_enable="YES" > # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable > dumpdev="AUTO" > zfs_enable="YES" > dbus_enable="YES" > hald_enable="YES" Well, forgive me or pointing it out, but looks like you didn't follow the previous thread's advice, looking at your current rc.conf > > Are you using ports or packages? A mix of two? (latter very ill advised). > > I'm using 'pkg'. The errors you are seeing could be related to the packager's machine, but try enabling HAL and DBUS first and see if they go away. In my experience, GUI/DE-related errors of that nature are harmless. If they don't go away, try using ports to build the packages. Just be sure you don't mix ports and packages unless you know what you are doing. On a very big tangent, most of the Desktop Environments still have strong ties to GNU/Linux distributions. I personally recommend you try Lumina or switch to a WM-only setup for most optimal tweak-free experience. That's not to say that you can't do it, but... give it a thoght. Just my two cents. :) Cheers, -- Sergei Akhmatdinov My GPG public key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys AD800D99 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEFByDSlcPK9lAgiNNxKRHP62ADZkFAlh91MIACgkQxKRHP62A DZm+Xw/+NRogju/eef6tNfzJoae8b49LI8IjHyKzAA9y63AKy/RuTyKjx7Nk19a1 9KbLnNumYMVg8sa4E8z2Ztc8DnJ16WN0Sjrs7bxrty3uvFOq6QvAw25R05JCZSJ8 mJkarl3UuHHmcbX0pXn6TjQ1su4CvpsMGmcUIZCu3fmrqvnYnQRWg6miZ+A3GHfR eoYRqSX1z5se+XJiJj3ToECe6/hzqlZyz+azi0xy6qEKEQWgVBGPUyh0dd6ulXoi SkcnEesRE8fIIhPT+IFXGUrEC3Oe5hM4BIQ1Zt+/m/TiTOs7FBPtSw7ybBbniC2/ L65gutvExrQJTWmb+/IhLigmiSST4lEpkCa33gXqwCJmVaAWUfDg4ZHx+L+hMSjR jBARYt7k9xrtTlH1bDvDeKL662rAOILSW+SiqRC692wxNJyrzbBNYmPf/d3Sj6Qq 8D0Yerzly+34o4Sv4kwmS0mwCeOIF7Co/4z783OSg3KqHeZTmKQX52A1OmXaeSxU J55wVVVaqAZrs7auOydIvz2Nn/LEKertcDb5XOXRU+zMHMZyUgdiwX+4CVvTXmXf uwOo25aOMW/47ZRI+jdGk93ylMLI6wnSV8JvxVeJzsGNy4jwPRhN4FEMf2R0Omsf PWizKKKl04plxT4ZuANzblWTAQ8EVc894Dn6rhALBCxo2gaW5ag= =Eh+E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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