Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:14:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208131811370.12470-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20020813175401.X29756-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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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
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