Re: xfce4 startup issue

[Robert Nestor <rnestor%mac.com@localhost>]

A follow up for anyone else seeing the same problems with dbus, hal and avahi starting up xfce4.

Finally isolated the problem to a build error in the packages using pkg_comp - it doesn’t happen with builds done in a typical pbulk build environment.  It appears that when pkg_comp bootstraps its pbulk environment it sets the ABI  option to match the host, in my case an amd64 system.  The packages build ok, but they then have the errors I was seeing when they execute.  Overriding the ABI parameter in the extra.mk.conf file used by pkg_conf fixes the problem.

Also, with the ABI parameter set as it is in the default setup for pkg_comp causes it to build a non-functional version of pkgin as well.  When pkgin is built this way it emits some obscure SQL errors trying to access its database.

I’ve written up a HOW-TO on getting pkg_comp set up so that it properly builds packages that match the ones on the server as well as ones built in a pbulk build environment.  I’ll send it in as soon as I finish tracking down a couple of other things like trying to isolate the funky mouse movements in xfce4 seen in the 2018Q4 and -current pkgsrc archives.