OK, following the advice I got yesterday, I installed FreeBSD (i386) 8.2 RC1 from CD to a 100 GB partition on a Dell E520 desktop.
The install went fine and note that I did NOT install the ports from the CD.
After booting to the tty, I installed the ports to an empty /usr/ports/ with
Then I proceeded to install Gnome from /usr/ports/x11/gnome2.
This went on for many hours but finally came to an end.
However, it seems to have stopped because of an error as I get
The output then suggests grabbing a config.log file which is not present in my system.
It then outputs some stop codes such as
Undaunted, I modified the /etc/rc.conf file to include
after which I booted.
However, it doesn't get past the login prompt on the tty.
Clearly an attempt (at least) has been made to start Gnome as "Starting gdm" is output just before the login prompt.
When I login as root and type gdm, nothing happens other than an output stating
Note that all of my ports are fully up-to-date as the command
gives no output.
My first thoughts are that this is some kind of bug in the RC1 and I'm considering reinstalling 8.1.
I would welcome comments.
Thank you
The install went fine and note that I did NOT install the ports from the CD.
After booting to the tty, I installed the ports to an empty /usr/ports/ with
Code:
#portsnap fetch
#portsnap extract
This went on for many hours but finally came to an end.
However, it seems to have stopped because of an error as I get
Code:
Script "Configure" failed unexpectedly.
It then outputs some stop codes such as
Code:
Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof.
*** Error code 1
Code:
gdm_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
However, it doesn't get past the login prompt on the tty.
Clearly an attempt (at least) has been made to start Gnome as "Starting gdm" is output just before the login prompt.
When I login as root and type gdm, nothing happens other than an output stating
Code:
** (gdm-binary:1099): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager
** (gdm-binary:1099): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out
Code:
pkg_version -vL "="
My first thoughts are that this is some kind of bug in the RC1 and I'm considering reinstalling 8.1.
I would welcome comments.
Thank you