From midnightbsd at bsdforge.com  Fri Jan 15 12:20:23 2021
From: midnightbsd at bsdforge.com (Chris)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 09:20:23 -0800
Subject: [Midnightbsd-users] post GUI install seems broken
Message-ID: <fc64eb902e75cd4e54557885842fcc00@bsdforge.com>

I performed an install of 2.0.3 AMD64 yesterday from the
USB image. The install seemed to emit an inordinate number
of console error messages, which largely corrupted the
screen (dialog?). These messages occurred during the disk
partition/layout portion of the install. In the end, they
appeared to be harmless, as the install went as intended.
The first-boot prompted the install of a DE to which I
answered yes. The download/install went w/o incident.
save complaints of missing info files. mlogind was
added to rc.conf(5). A reboot brought up the mlogind
login screen. Entering username && password returned a
black screen. Rebooting single-user and reading
/var/log/mlogind.log revealed that apparently dbus
wasn't enabled. Added dbus_enable="YES" to rc.conf(5).
Bounced the box && entered username && password in
mlogind. This resulted in ERROR: can't execute login command.
Hmm. A look at /usr/local/etc/mlogind.conf reveals that
an ~/.xinitrc is REQUIRED in order to present a DE
after login. Well exactly *what* must be added to .xinitrc?
It *appears* that mate is installed. But a search for
startmate, mate-session, and other mate related commands
returned nothing. So I simply performed a: mport install xfce
followed by a: echo startxfce4 >~/.xinitrc
Bounced the box, (successfully) logged in via mlogind and all
seemed OK. *except* that attempting to change the desktop
image reveals that the user has no access to the filesystem
in control-panel. You can see the xfce/mate/gnome folders.
But you can NOT open them -- even as root. I don't experience
this problem from the console.
Are there any correctly working versions of MidnightBSD?

Thank you for all your time, and consideration.

--Chris