How to solve the problems related to pulseaudio and gdm on FreeBSD 7.2

One of the solutions is to build gnome2 and dependencies from ports, which some web sites show. So I didn't install Gnome2 and dependencies
but Xorg and dependencies from DVD-R.

First I updated ports using portsnap.

# portsnap fetch
# portsnap extract

Second I installed Gnome2 and dependencies from ports.

# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
# make install clean

It required more than 10 hours and less than 24 hours and there were a lot of error messages
during building gnome2. I used pkg_add to deal with the error messages relative to the installation of some of the packages.

# pkg_add -r THE_PACKAGE_NAME

However, I didn't use pkg_add to install pulseaudio and gdm. Please make sure that you install pulseaudio and gdm from ports through building gnome2 and dependencies.

Third the size of /usr I adopted was about 16GB but it was not enough when I built jdk16 and openoffice.org-3 after having built gnome2. Therefore, I removed all files in /usr/ports/distfiles when I built openoffice.org-3.

# cd /usr/ports/distfiles
# rm -rf *

Finally I will be happy to assist you in solving the problems related to pulseaudio and gdm on FreeBSD 7.2.