gnome2 related problem - I think

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jtl

In an earlier effort to install system sources (somehow gone horribly wrong), I ended up with some important files being overwritten - most significantly, /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd (I have no idea what else). I recreated the user entries, but a number of other important entries are still missing and I don't know how to repair them. When I boot the machine, it complains about the following unknown users: avahi, polkit, haldaemon, pulse, and gdm. The machine seems to run fine as long as I don't start gnome, but hangs when I do. How can I go about fixing this? Delete the gnome2 package and add it again? I'm hoping for something quicker. Thanks for any help.
 
Those are users needed by the various daemons. Deleting the package and re-adding it should recreate them.
 
@DutchDaemon - I found what looked like the original master.passwd file in /var/backup, but it didn't solve my problems. I'm assuming that's because I did more harm than simply overwriting the passwd files, or perhaps because my original attempts to "fix" the problem did more harm.

@wblock - When I finally managed to install the kernel source files, they were updated to a more recent version of 8.2-STABLE than my original installation, so trying to reinstall the packages failed because all the dependencies were out of date. Ultimately, I did a pkg_delete -a and then a pkg_add -r for gnome2, xorg and others. This seems to have worked pretty well. My only remaining issue is that on boot up I get this warning:
Code: 
Starting dbus.
/etc/rc: Warning: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
I've looked at the rc.conf(5) man page but it doesn't explicitly list a dbus_enable option. How can I fix this warning?
 
dbus is a port, so the operating system man pages won't cover it. Even the application man pages, if present, probably won't describe how to set the startup script variables. The standard is just
Code: 
name_enable="YES"
where name is the name of the program. See the actual startup scripts in /usr/local/etc if you need something more specific.

What do you have in /etc/rc.conf for dbus?
 
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There's was no dbus entry in my rc.conf file after my original install of 8.2-STABLE (when everything seemed to be working fine), and I didn't add one. I just added
Code: 
dbus_enable="YES"
to my rc.conf file and the warning disappeared. I'm going to guess that the warning was always there, but that I didn't notice it because things seemed to be working fine. Thanks very much for all your help.
 
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