OpenIndiana Distribution

seems HAL is what blocks gdm from starting up.

richard@devzone:~# svcs -xv
svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default (GNOME Display Manager)
 State: offline since  5 novembre 2011 20:09:58 CET
Reason: Dependency svc:/system/hal is absent.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-E2
   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1m gdm
Impact: This service is not running.

HAL is what blocks in a reboot if enabled after copying the manifest and method files from the global zone.

I was able to get ConsoleKit to start up by setting hidden=true in /etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d/00-primary.seat and creating the following:

richard@devzone:/etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d# cat 04-headless.seat 
[Seat Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=HeadlessSeat
ID=HeadlessSeat
Description=start a framebuffer display, the display number is :32
Hidden=false
Devices=
Sessions=Headless;
richard@devzone:/etc/ConsoleKit/seats.d# ck-list-sessions -a
SessionHeadlessSeatHeadless:
    unix-user = '0'
    realname = 'Super-User'
    seat = 'HeadlessSeat'
    session-type = 'LoginWindow'
    display-type = 'Headless'
    open = 'FALSE'
    active = 'FALSE'
    x11-display = ''
    x11-display-device = ''
    display-device = ''
    remote-host-name = ''
    is-local = 'TRUE'
    on-since = '2011-11-05T19:08:35.616890Z'
    login-session-id = ''
    idle-since-hint = ''

unfortunately, vncviewer still show a black screen, apparently because gdm isn't started up...
any ideas would help.

I am able to get one step further by making optional hal in the service description dependency for gdm.

richard@devzone:~# svcs -l gdm
fmri         svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
name         GNOME Display Manager
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time    6 novembre 2011 06:54:08 CET
logfile      /var/svc/log/application-graphical-login-gdm:default.log
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id  194 
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/application/opengl/ogl-select (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/local (online)
dependency   require_all/error svc:/milestone/multi-user:default (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/milestone/sysconfig (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/application/font/fc-cache (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/utmp (online)
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/system/hal (absent)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/dbus (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/consolekit (online)

Now I get a login (minus background colours and icons) and can log into an xterm... gdm gives a watch cursor and doesn't seem to advance.

taking a look into .xsession

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/usr/bin/stat: cannot stat `/dev/audio': No such file or directory
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
/usr/bin/dispswitch exiting: too few (less than 2) or too many (more than 2) crtcs: 1
/usr/lib/lp/bin/desktop-print-management-applet[31]: exec: /usr/lib/ospm/ospm-applet: not found

well, in a clean zone install I tried the pkg install/uninstall slim_install method and it seemed to work with the dbus, gdm/hal dependency, and consolekit mods. vncviewer loads up correctly the first time after a "typical" preparation.

.xsessions does have a number of warnings/errors, but not sure if they are critical for the moment:

 cat .xsession-errors 
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/usr/bin/stat: cannot stat `/dev/audio': No such file or directory
Cleaned 1 files 0 still live
/usr/openwin/bin/xrdb: colon missing on line 1, ignoring line
/usr/openwin/bin/xrdb: colon missing on line 10, ignoring line
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-sfXACj
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=11100

** (gnome-settings-daemon:11098): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is too frequent, skipping...

** (gnome-settings-daemon:11098): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is too frequent, skipping...

(gnome-settings-daemon:11098): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-sfXACj
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-sfXACj/ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-sfXACj
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-sfXACj/ssh
Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : La lecture du fichier de session enregistré /home/dev/.config/metacity/sessions/10afd34dc64fa4d42c13205774157601200000110500020.ms a échoué : L'ouverture du fichier « /home/dev/.config/metacity/sessions/10afd34dc64fa4d42c13205774157601200000110500020.ms » a échoué : No such file or directory

(gnome-panel:11109): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported
/usr/bin/dispswitch exiting: too few (less than 2) or too many (more than 2) crtcs: 1

** (gnome-power-manager:11111): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such name
** (gnome-power-manager:11111): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon responsible for org.freedesktop.Hal is not running?

** (gnome-power-manager:11111): WARNING **: Either HAL or DBUS are not working!

** (gnome-power-manager:11111): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such name
** (gnome-power-manager:11111): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon responsible for org.freedesktop.Hal is not running?

** (gnome-power-manager:11111): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such name
** (gnome-power-manager:11111): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon responsible for org.freedesktop.Hal is not running?

** (gnome-power-manager:11111): WARNING **: proxy failed

** (gnome-power-manager:11111): WARNING **: proxy NULL!!

** (gnome-power-manager:11111): WARNING **: proxy NULL!!
** (gnome-power-manager:11111): DEBUG: already disconnected from org.freedesktop.Hal
** (gnome-power-manager:11111): DEBUG: already disconnected from org.freedesktop.Hal
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension

(nautilus:11110): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported
system-config-printer-applet: failed to start NewPrinterNotification service

(gedit:11293): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported

(gnome-system-monitor:11297): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported

also, a big cleanup in uninstalling locales with package manager, not sure if it's safe to uninstall drivers...

Perhaps this should turn into a wish list for a zone configure module to do the necessary thing. it would be nice to simplify the locale selection as opposed to loading the world as well.