I installed Gnome 42; startx didn't start it after spewing out a whole bunch of errors. In my /etc/rc.conf I had:
gnome_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES" which I commented out after learning that hald no longer exists
dbus_enable="YES"
It seemed that there was no dbus script in /etc/rc.d. I found one in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and and copied it over to /etc/rc.d which did not solve the problem. When examining the dbus script I saw that the second line had {gnome_enable-NO}; I changed it to YES; rebooted and Gnome 42 worked. I still have to start it using startx because there doesn't seem to be any way to start it with gdm. I commented out all the above entries in /etc/rc.conf and I now have a shiny Gnome 42 as my desktop.
gnome_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES" which I commented out after learning that hald no longer exists
dbus_enable="YES"
It seemed that there was no dbus script in /etc/rc.d. I found one in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and and copied it over to /etc/rc.d which did not solve the problem. When examining the dbus script I saw that the second line had {gnome_enable-NO}; I changed it to YES; rebooted and Gnome 42 worked. I still have to start it using startx because there doesn't seem to be any way to start it with gdm. I commented out all the above entries in /etc/rc.conf and I now have a shiny Gnome 42 as my desktop.