From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 15:15:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62F537B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665C143E65 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 6A9814FC8A; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:14:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654DF4A0D; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:14:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:14:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME In-Reply-To: <20020813175401.X29756-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Parker Brown wrote: > > Actually, I did that when I reinstalled 4.6 yesterday. Please help me here, > > as I'm having problems understanding. GNOME seems to be installed, but I > > can't find it. pkg_info says it's installed, but pkg_info -L hasn't a clue > > where or what it is. Trying to run make in the ports packages predictably > > says it's already installed, but even a successful make deinstall and make > > reinstall leaves me with "so what's new?" > > > > On a hunch, I tried running gdm, but as user it says "only root wants to run > > gdm." and as root it says it can't find a group or something like that. Can > > editing something get me around this? > > You should have a gdm user and a gdm group on your system. This is done > by gdm at install time. If the user or group is missing, you should > create a user and group with uid:gid 92. The /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm directory > should be owned by this user and group. > > GNOME can be started in one of two ways. You can either crank up gdm, or, > if you're using startx, add: > > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session > > As the last line of your ~/.xinitrc file. > Also, just to check your paths and wotnot, a good debug tactic is to put simply e.g.: exec xterm in your ~/.xinitrc file. Then X will start, with no window manager, just an xterm, and you can try out your X setup manually, by typing gnome-session (or startkde or blackbox or whatever) in the xterm. JB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message