Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:34:21 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@ethos.thought.org>, Gnome at FreeBSD List <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any clues hy Gnome isn't autobooting? Message-ID: <op.ts9h7j0a9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20070601072255.GA67598@thought.org> References: <20070601021741.GA65950@thought.org> <op.ts709hq79aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20070601072255.GA67598@thought.org>
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:22:55 -0500, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> = wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:30:43PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:17:41 -0500, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org= > >> wrote: >> >> > >> > I have gdm_enable=3D"YES" in /rc.conf but whrn I boot, I'm always >> > tossed into termina mode. I have to login as root and go from >> > there. Typing gdm is rejected because the binary is already >> > running. And that proves true. Tying kdm eventually gets me to >> > that graphix login. From the kde login i can mouse into any >> > window manager I choose, but it turns out I'm more familiar with >> > gnome, etc, etc. so to hav my hand, fingers, wrist, i'll >> > appreciate any insights. Ifthe booot process looks at my >> > .xsession, that is likely part oft he problem. >> >> You will get better respone from us if you follow this: >> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html >> >> Also, you haven't yet respone back to Norberto Meijome: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2007-May/017594.html= > > Apologies. I'll check the URL's within 24 hours. I'm looking > forward to getting evolution on the "new-tao" so i'll have the > option of usin it or mutt. > >> >> We are clueless just like you without any of your details. >> > > Ihear you, friend. just hhope that this is the last major > upheaval for, oh, 7,000 years :-) Afraid, we have a last major overhead for GNOME coming in this fall. We = = are removing a lot of patches of share/gnome/, so we are going to leave = = all of GNOME's tarballs vanilla at most. The result will be share/gnome/= = -> share/. This one will helping us to get a few more years unless xorg = = or/and GNOME developers do some big changes. ;-) Cheers, Mezz > cheers back, > > gary > > >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> >> > Almost back to normal, tho! >> > >> > -g -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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