Re: xfce4 startup issue

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, at 10:11:22 -0600, Robert Nestor wrote:
> Running NetBSD 8.0_STABLE on an amd64 system using xfce4 and related
> packages from pkgsrc-2017Q4 which has been working.  But there are
> some minor nits, so I’ve tried upgrading my installed packages to
> those found in either pkgsrc-2018Q4 or -current.  I see the same
> problem in both though; xfce4 doesn’t start and I see the same
> messages during startup on a clean install of the system:
> 
> dbus-daemon[1027]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules;
> type=“method_call”, sender=“:1.0” (uid=0, pid=1135,
> comm=“/usr/pkg/sbin/hald ”)
> interface=“org.freedesktop.ConsoleKitManager” member=“GetSeats”
> errorname=“(nset)” requested_reply=“0”
> destination=“org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit” (dubs)
> /etc/rc.d/hald exited with code 1
> 
> avadi-daemon[790]: dbus_bus_request_name(): Connection “:1.1” is not
> allowed to own the service “org.freedesktop.Avahi” due to security
> policies in the configuration file
> /etc/rc.d/avahidaemon exited with code 1
> 
> Digging into the problem I notice that the directories for hal, dbus
> and avahi have all moved from /usr/pkg/etc to /etc.  Comparing the
> files in these directories shows changes in the dbus-
> 1/system.d/ConsoleKit.conf file, but using the one from 2017Q4 doesn’t
> improve or correct the startup problems.
> 
> In all three setups (2017Q4, 2018Q4 and current) I have hal, dbus and
> avahidaemon set to YES in /etc/rc.conf.

What happens if you disable these three in rc.conf and simply issue
"startxfce4" from the command line? Does it fail to start? Are you
seeing any error messages from xfce4 itself?

Regards,

Dave