Banshee from ports problem

[ateneouw]

Hi, I hope this is the right place to put this question.

I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I'm using FreeBSD 11.0 with Gnome 3.
I have updated my system with portupgrade -rac. Then I updated ports with portsnap(8). I built Banshee from ports and everything appears ok, but when I try to run Banshee it opens a few time and then closes.

I have googled it, but no answers.

Any idea?

Remember that I'm very new to FreeBSD.

Thanks in advance

 

[SirDice]

Does Gnome Terminal or xterm work? Try starting it from there, it may provide some error messages.

 

[x-com]

Normally before doing further research, I recommend reading the Handbook regarding GNOME
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
You should follow these instruction for most gtk based applications, for example Firefox won't work without dbus and proc. In short:

1. start dbus and hald during startup using the following entries in /etc/rc.conf
   

   dbus_enable="YES"
   hald_enable="YES"

2. mount some special file systems in the /etc/fstab
   

   proc   /proc   procfs   rw  0  0

I would recommend mounting fdescfs(5) as well (if bash or Java are installed, it is necessary anyway), just add

fdesc  /dev/fd   fdescfs  rw 0 0

to your fstab. If you have done so, proceed with the advice of SirDice and start banshee from a terminal an post the error messages here.