gnome-session won't start

[Andrew Long]

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I recently installed the complete gnome package from macports on my system. When I try to start gnome-session I get the dreaded 'operation not permitted' message.

Here's what I get when I try 'startx' in Termina.app:-
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font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
font_cache: Updating FC cache
xauth:  file /Users/andy/.serverauth.8371 does not exist

launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure: Operation not permitted
Xquartz: Unable to locate waiting server: org.x.X11
Xquartz: X11.app = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
X11.app: main(): argc=2
	argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
	argv[1] = --listenonly
Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
X11.app: No launchd socket handed off, unsetting DISPLAY
X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=4
	argv[0] = /usr/X11/bin/X
	argv[1] = :0
	argv[2] = -auth
	argv[3] = /Users/andy/.serverauth.8371
Xquartz starting:
X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple56
Build Date: 20100624
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
font_cache: Done

Failed to start message bus: launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure: Operation not permitted

EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
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I found a lot of (old) errors concerning this kind of prblem on Google, but nothing promising a resolution; Has there been any progress with this problem? 

I don't know how relevant this is, but when installing gnome, the following error was reported when installing dbus--

error:activate Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist already exists and does not belong to a registered port.  Unable to activate port dbus. Use 'port -f activate dbus' to force the activation.



In order to get over this, I ran the force in 'sudo' - was this correct, or should I have just done it locally? There is a dbus daemon running on my system as root

   73 ??         0:00.01 /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork

Is this something I should attempt to recover from, and if so, how?

TIA

Regards, Andy
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Andrew Long
andrew dot long at yahoo dot com





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