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

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Don Harrison
2024-02-28
2024-03-01

  • Don Harrison

    Don Harrison - 2024-02-28

    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

    Roger Brown - 2024-02-28

    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

    Don Harrison - 2024-02-29

    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

    Roger Brown - 2024-03-01

    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.

     

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