No login window after update

[fmw]

Hi everyone,

This one's been troubling me for a few days now. After the most recent updates, I haven't been able to log in any more. I only get the background image and a mouse pointer, but no login window or status bar. pkg_libchk yields nothing, but I'm getting a few error messages in /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log:

gnome-session[3655]: Bonobo-WARNING: Bonobo must be initialized before use

(gnome-settings-daemon:3661): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use

(metacity:3670): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use
gdm-simple-greeter[3676]: Bonobo-WARNING: Bonobo must be initialized before use

(gnome-power-manager:3677): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use

** (gnome-power-backlight-helper:3681): WARNING **: failed to find any devices: Fehler beim Öffnen des Ordners »/sys/class/backlight«: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3678): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use

(gdm-simple-greeter:3676): Gtk-WARNING **: gtkwidget.c:5709: widget not within a GtkWindow
**
metacity:ERROR:ui/ui.c:752:meta_ui_get_default_window_icon: assertion failed: (default_icon)

** (gnome-session:3655): CRITICAL **: gsm_client_peek_id: assertion `GSM_IS_CLIENT (client)' failed

** (gnome-session:3655): WARNING **: Client '(null)' failed to reply before timeout

** (gnome-session:3655): CRITICAL **: gsm_client_peek_app_id: assertion `GSM_IS_CLIENT (client)' failed

** (gnome-session:3655): CRITICAL **: gsm_client_get_app_name: assertion `GSM_IS_CLIENT (client)' failed

** (gnome-session:3655): CRITICAL **: gsm_client_peek_id: assertion `GSM_IS_CLIENT (client)' failed

I deleted about a ton of other (repetitive) warnings relating to bonobo. Where do I need to look?

TIA,
Frank

 

[johnblue]

Hello Frank, sorry you are having problems. Have you made any progress in the interim?

 

[fmw]

Sadly, no. Right now I'm just using this as an excuse to try out KDE4.

 

[marwis]

I'm having the same problem. There's no login screen after the start of GDM. I'm using Enlightenment for now. I would use KDM and start Gnome from there but KDM is not packaged separately. I'd have to compile all of KDE.

 

[hockey97]

Hey, guys did you solve the issue? I have the same exact problem. No login screen is shown, I just see a leaf background that is it.

However, my errors are talking about errors using regex which is regular expressions. Did you guys have any luck fixing this issue?

 

[marcinkk]

Same here

In /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log I can find a lot of lines with message:

metacity:ERROR:ui/ui.c:752:GdkPixbuf *meta_ui_get_default_window_icon(MetaUI *): assertion failed: (default_icon)
LibGTop-Server: pid 37437 received eof.

Green screen (background), sometimes with bottom panel, no login window.

I think more information would be useful. I have FreeBSD 10.0 installed about 4 months ago with gnome2. In /usr/ports I made make update and then portmaster -a. I've also made some recommended steps from /usr/ports/UPDATING, especially reinstallation of all ports dependent on freetype2, libxcb, and so on.