Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:08:58 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome install: stuck Message-ID: <6201873e1003072308g641eedffpf77757179dc54b54@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ed7803cf1003072246s1a16a3eh4906f8fe3cd79d2@mail.gmail.com> References: <ed7803cf1003072246s1a16a3eh4906f8fe3cd79d2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM, n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > Laptop with Freebsd 8.0, with gnome installed and > gdm_enable="YES" > gnome_enable="YES" > in /etc/rc.conf, no changes to /etc/ttys (that is: ttyv8 ... xdm off) > After reboot, system starts in gnome, gives a greenish background, > a taskbar at the bottom, with only date/time, a button for 'Universal > access preferences' and an icon for the battery. > In the desktop a grey window with 2 buttons labeled 'Restart' and > 'Shutdown'. > Clicking either of them makes them be blueish for the time the mouse > button in pressed, but nothing happens. > I am stuck in Gnome. Why and how to solve it ? > > (I can only do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the command prompt, but even that > I have to do twice: the first time it gives a flickering almost entirely > black > screen with at the top some half line of flickering ascii characters (can't > read), doing a Ctrl-Alt-F9 (back to gnome) and again Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a > stable login: prompt.) > > Sounds like you are in GDM, not gnome. There's probably a login button somewhere, you need to authenticate with the system then you'll be logged into the desktop. Also, it's just Alt-F9 to return to the graphical display, ctrl not needed there. -- Adam Vande More
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