Enable gdm in Solaris 11 non-global zone

I am trying to enable gdm in a fresh solaris 11 NGZ. I installed slim_install and solaris-desktop. gdm will not start, and shows the following:
# svcs -xv gdm
svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default (GNOME Display Manager)
State: offline since Thu Jun 14 10:56:54 2012
Reason: Service svc:/system/hal:default is in an invalid state.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-GE
Path: svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
svc:/system/hal:default
Reason: Service svc:/system/dbus:default is temporarily disabled.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-GE
Path: svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
svc:/system/dbus:default
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1m gdm
Impact: This service is not running.
# svcs -xv dbus
svc:/system/dbus:default (D-BUS message bus)
State: disabled since Thu Jun 14 12:47:15 2012
Reason: Temporarily disabled by an administrator.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-1S
See: man -M /usr/man -s 1 dbus-daemon
See: /var/svc/log/system-dbus:default.log
Impact: 2 dependent services are not running:
svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
# uname -a
SunOS test-host 5.11 11.0 sun4v sparc sun4v
I gather from reading other threads that dbus will not run in a NGZ, so how can I get gnome desktop manager to start?

Hello,
if you still have not got any answer from oracle support like us, perhaps i can give you a hin to fix this ...
First we changed /etc/gdm/custom.conf
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
Then we changed smf service layout for svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default
We deleted dependencies for hal, consolekit and dbus in /lib/svc/manifest/application/graphical-login/gdm.xml
After that we started gdm service, but it failed. THe gdm-binary needs a socket from dbus ...
So we modified dbus start script.
Just comment check for "non-global zone" out in /lib/svc/method/svc-dbus
#if smf_is_nonglobalzone; then
# /usr/sbin/svcadm disable -t svc:/system/dbus
# echo "dbus-daemon cannot be run in non-global zones"
# sleep 5 &
# exit $SMF_EXIT_OK
#fi
then start dbus service and gdm service ...
hope that helps...
Just contact Oracle to deliver update for you !
thanks
Christian

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