Hi, I installed OBSD 6.5 (or upgraded from 6.4, I'm not sure...) in a qcow2 image in QEmu 3.1.0 (Xubuntu 19.04 host). I selected to run ssh & start X with xenodm.
Everything went fine with the basic install. Then I installed a few packages (emacs, python, spyder3, etc) and updated everything with pkg_add -ui and (sysmerge)/syspatch. Everything still worked fine after this step too. Then I discovered about Slim and decided to install Slim+XFCE4 following: https://medium.com/@005/openbsd-6-4-installing-a-seriously-underrated-os-in-a-virtual-machine-f5848ee5a25a and: https://sohcahtoa.org.uk/openbsd.html Thus I installed a few more packages: pkg_add -ui dbus consolekit2 polkit xfce xfce-extras slim slim-themes 1) set Slim as the display manager in /etc/rc.local /etc/rc.d/slim start 2) started the required daemons in /etc/rc.conf.local pkg_scripts="dbus_daemon avahi_daemon messagebus" dbus_enable 3) set XFCE as the in .xinitrc: exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch And then the problem occurred: I could not login (graphically) anymore. The display manager would simply restart. I tried various modifications of 2) (removing some/all the pkg_scripts, adding =YES to dbus_enable) and 3) (removing exec, removing --withxxx, replacing by dbus-launch xxx). It did not work. After investigation, I discovered that dbus was not running, and that running dbus-daemon manually led to a coredump due to a floating point exception (thus XFCE would not start neither with Slim nor with xenodm, but restoring fvwm, by renaming .xinitrc, would work). I ffsck'ed the disk, then reinstalled dbus with pkg_add -D installed -r dbus. It did not work. I ran pkg_checked and discovered a few errors, particularly "checksum for /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon does not match". I manually deleted all the files marked as errors by pkg_checked and reinstalled the concerned packages with pkg_add -D installed -r xxx (FYI: avahi, curl, dbus, ffcall, gettext, gnutls, harfbuzz, icu4c, libffi, libpaper, p11-kit, pcre, pcre2, png, sqlite, tiff). It did not work. I installed & ran sysclean, rerun pkg_check/pkg_add -D xxx -r yyy multiple times. Some errors disappeared, but not the dbus-daemon checksum & floating point exception problem. I know I could probably solve the problem quickly by reinstalling properly the whole system, but I'm really curious about HOW I could have reached such a situation, WHY this situation still holds after multiple pkg reinstalls and IF there's a clean/simple solution. So if anymore has any idea, I'd love to learn more, just in case this happens in a more dramatic situation and I have to find a cleaner solution than just reinstalling... Thanks in advance Guillaume
