On 2 Dec 2015 at 9:50, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Mitt Green wrote: > > I'm troubling starting X on a newly installed system. > > Dbus errors are keeping you from starting X? Do you mean it's keeping your > X environment from being usable and coming up fully to GNOME or that it's > somehow crashing or interfering with X? Xorg under NetBSD doesn't require > dbus (thank goodness). > > > Errors are: > > - Could not connect to ConsoleKit, no /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket > > file; > > Perhaps try stubing the file with a empty file or link to /dev/null ? > > > I don't have dbus in rc.d. Reinstalling dbus also doesn't help. System - > > NetBSD 7.0. I am trying to get GNOME2 working. > > Sorry, and nothing personal, but I kind of doubt you'll see much in the > way of help on that. GNOME[2] isn't the most appealing hairball for folks > to put energy into. Personally, I see dbus as the armpit of GNOME. My > impression is that most NetBSD users use a lighter weight environment then > just pick-and-choose from GNOME and KDE. Ie.. for example I run Fluxbox > but I (very) occasionally use KDE's Amarok or GNOME's Evolution. However, > like a lot of NetBSD users, I spend 90% of my time in regular xterm or > just on the console. I realize those are style-issues, but still somewhat > germane. >
Hi I used Netbsd-1.x back in late 90s then switched to FreeBSD as I couldn't get NetBSD-2 to work on my hardware. I moved back to NetBSD-3 and since then haven't needed Linux or FreeBSD. My servers, desktops and netbooks are all running NetBSD-7. Desktops and netbooks have both Gnome and xfce4 installed although I never got around to setting up xfce. My first suggestion would be to either edit rc.conf and add: famd=YES gdm=YES dbus=YES gdm=YES or use "/etc/rc.d/gdm etc onestart" assuming you have the needed files in /etc/rc.d. The rc.d files should be found in /usr/pkg/share/. When disk space was more limited I've previously used fvwm and xfce. David
