Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:31:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> Cc: freebsdQuestions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10.2 graphics problem Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509151329030.76298@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <8F541F88-2EAE-434C-B52C-43A744F54ADD@slsware.net> References: <8F541F88-2EAE-434C-B52C-43A744F54ADD@slsware.net>
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Glenn English wrote: > I'm trying to move from Debian Linux to FreeBSD. xorg runs and > displays the crossed grey and black, like it's supposed to. I've even > seen an XFCE desktop. But once this comes up (both of them), there's > no way, short of rebooting, to quit xorg or to get back to the > console. Without details of what actually happens, it is difficult to determine the cause. But it is probably due to using the old console, sc(4). Use vt(4) by adding this to /boot/loader.conf: kern.vty=vt > I've tried several times to install XFCE with 10.2. > I'm thinking the problem may have to do with dbus. Probably not, although dbus is used by xfce. > I booted this morning, and it works perfectly (as far as I can tell) to the console. But when I type: > > service dbus start > > the error message says it couldn't get the UID and GID for 'messagebus'. So I said > > pkg install dbus > > Everything updated it self properly, and it said that the latest version of dbus was already installed. > > Where does user messagebus come from? Am I wrong about what the problem is? Any thought and/or instructions would be greatly appreciated. When the package is installed, the user was created. Start dbus in /etc/rc.conf and forget about it: dbus_enable="YES"
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