Uwe:
Is the dbus service running? Try running svcs dbus. Does it say
"online" or "maintenance" or what?
One problem I ran into is that the latest Nevada builds are building
D-Bus with the dirfd interface, which isn't available on older Nevada.
Rebuilding D-Bus via the CBE will fix this since configure will avoid
building with dirfd support if it is not on the system.
Another issue could be with the Xserver. I know that they added Xcursor
support a while back. Do you have a /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcursor.pc file?
If not, you may need to update your Xserver to the latest bits.
If that doesn't help, try the following debug ideas:
Please check your $HOME/.xsession-errors file, the /var/log/Xorg* logs,
$HOME/.dt/errorlog*, /var/log/gdm/*, etc. since a useful message
might be there.
Also try logging into failsafe, then try running
gnome-session
or
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
And see if any useful error messages appear.
Brian
> Made the straightforward upgrade from 78 to 81; after nobody yelling about
> problems with 81.
> I do have some; in short: Gnome seems to kill X and get me back to the login
> applet.
>
> Okay: upgrade went through without any warnings or errors. Reboot. kernel
> dumped and restarted; this time okay.
> Next was
> ... svc.startd[7] system/wsconsole:console failed fatally: transitioned to
> maintenance
>
> Then I had the problem encountered earlier, with X being killed after the
> logon to Gnome. Last time, changing the NVIDIA driver back to the one of nv70
> solved the problem, here it doesn't.
>
> Went through a lot of steps, and ended uninstalling the NVIDIA-driver
> completely. Then I removed the xorg.conf and restarted, after having created
> a new user account.
> Now what happens is, that as soon as the user logs on, either myself or that
> user with a very fresh account (rm -Rf */rm -Rf .* in the account), as soon
> as Gnome starts, CPU is used for a few seconds 100%, and then X is killed,
> and the logon applet shows again.
> X is run with "nv", the log does not indicated any problems. It leaves a core
> in the user account. When the new, fresh, user starts and decides for CDE,
> everything is okay and CDE comes up properly. The only thing not working is
> firefox, it dumps as well. But this might have to do with CDE?
>
> Now I wonder what makes Gnome (?) / X(?) core in an empty user account, just
> as well as in mine. It seems to have to do with Gnome, since CDE starts
> properly.
>
> I have tried no xorg.conf as well as one created with '/usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
> -configure'. Both expose the same problem.
>
> I can confirm, that emptying the user account completely, rebooting, and
> selecting Gnome will kill X here and get the user back to the logon applet.
>
> Any hint appreciated,
>
> Uwe
>
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