Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:39:48 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues Message-ID: <4C38B064.1000807@freebsd.org>
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Okay, I have been spending time trying to recreate the problems people have been reporting with GNOME. The problems are: * polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 crashes at startup * gnome-panel takes too long to start * Workspace Switcher does not work Sadly, I was unable to recreate what I would consider any problems. I tested the following configurations: * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from July 4 with ports from July 4 * FreeBSD i386 -CURRENT from July 4 with ports from July 4 * FreeBSD amd64 -CURRENT from July 5 with ports from July 5 * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from June 17 with ports from June 18 (in VMWare Fusion 3.0 on a Mac) I tested by starting GNOME from GDM and using startx. My ~/.initrc has simply this: #!/bin/sh exec ck-launch-session gnome-session My locale is en_US.UTF-8. I have procfs mounted, and I can perform: ping `localhost` Successfully. I am not running ANY firewalls, and I have not enabled any blackholes for TCP or UDP. When I run GNOME from startx, I do see a delay of about 10 seconds while waiting for the panel to appear. This is because gnome-panel is trying to contact GDM to determine if shutdown/reboot support is enabled. This delay is expected in a startx configuration. Workspace Switcher has always worked for me. I tried switching workspaces with the keyboard shortcut and by clicking on the space in the lower panel. Both worked. I was also able to bring up properties, and add an additional workspace. I was able to see a problem with polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in ONE instance. A core was produced. This problem seems to occur when GDM switches the user to the logged in user. I didn't notice any other problems related to this, though. For those still seeing workspace switch problems, rebuild gnome-panel with debugging symbols, then bind gdb to workspace switcher, and get a backtrace when it appears to be hung up. That's after making sure all of the above is inline as much as possible with my test machines. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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