How to correct File Manipulation Error + File Manager Open Directory Error pop ups?

[Don Harrison]

After I boot up FreeBSD 13.2 and login to Common Desktop Environment 2.5.1 I get the following popups:

File Manager Open Directory Error - Invalid folder specification, ~

and File Manager Open Directory Error - Cannot read from /root

How do I go about correcting this?

Thank you!

[Roger Brown]

I am glad you got a build completed in FreeBSD 13.2, I was unable to but was able to build on 13.1-RELEASE

Are you using dtlogin and what user are you logging in as? I strongly recommend against logging in as root with any GUI.

Did you configure with

echo 'dtlogin_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo "allowed_users=anybody" > /usr/local/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

and

in /etc/rc.conf

rpcbind_enable=YES
ldconfig_paths="/usr/local/lib /usr/dt/lib"

[Don Harrison]

Thank you for the reply Roger.

The only line missing from your suggestion was ldconfig_paths="/usr/local/lib /usr/dt/lib" which I added to /etc/rc.conf and rebooted.

No change - still get the error popups.

Stumped...

[Roger Brown]

Are you able to run just dtsession from an already logged in user?

You may need both X-server and rpcbind already started. There must be no window manager already attached to the X-server.

Normaly when you start just X you get a plain xterm running in top-left with no window manager. Use this to launch dtsession.