Gnome on FreeBSD - can't unlock desktop

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I followed instructions in the FreeBSD manual to install X and Gnome, and I can login and get a desktop. However, if the desktop locks, e.g. due to inactivity timeout or manual locking, I then cannot unlock the desktop - after typing the password at the prompt and hitting enter, it just prompts me for the password again.

Note that if I enter the wrong password, I get an error, but when I enter the right password, I don’t get an error (which seems to me is confirmation I did, in fact, enter the right password).

What log should I check to start troubleshooting this?

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Please ask in the FreeBSD forums instead.

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Is there a reason why use use *BSD instead of Linux distro?

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Kind of getting off-topic, but I’ve used Linux for years, and just want to play with and learn more about BSD. Self-learning, basically.

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I could do that, but this is Gnome code that’s having the issue, so it kind of seemed like the Gnome forums would be the experts on Gnome?

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FreeBSD ships a heavily modified version of GNOME, from the init system and service manager all the way to a display server we no longer support.

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Oh, thank you for explaining that. I didn’t realize it was heavily modified.

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So, I can’t use Gnome in FreeBSD anymore?

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That depends entirely on the FreeBSD folks maintaining their downstream version of GNOME.

GNOME, as an upsteam, is not responsible for packaging itself to downstream distributors.