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Date:      04 Feb 2003 13:36:50 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Kirk R Wythers <wythe001@umn.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gnome2 install on 5.0
Message-ID:  <1044383810.323.2.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <200302041448.h14EmoH02993@challenge.software.umn.edu>
References:  <200302041448.h14EmoH02993@challenge.software.umn.edu>

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On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:48, Kirk R Wythers wrote:
> >> 1) does gnome2 just need me to create a .xinitrc file with 'exec
> >> gnome-session' in it to start? or am I missing something else?
>=20
> >Yep, assuming you start X using startx.  Make sure ~/.xinitrc is
> executable.
>=20
> ~/.xinitrc is executable with 744. I can start gnome2 as root (yes I have
> wrapper installed)... but if I start try and start gnome2 as a regular us=
er
> (either startx or xinit), I get the error:
>=20
> **ERROR**: I Can't write to /tmp/orbit-kwythers, ORB failed aborting...

Try deleting any orbit* directories in /tmp, and try again.

Joe

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