GNOME 2.4.1 portage - error at startup

arsi · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 9

hello!

i have installed GNOME 2.4.1 from gentoo protage and i got this error message when login to gnome:

Your Session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logout yourself, this could mean that there is some installations problem or that you maybe out of diskspace. Try logging in with with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem.
details from ~/.xsession-error file:
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/log/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "arsi"
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome

and when i start with "failsafe gnome" i got the same error message.

please help me with this ... Andreas
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limewolf · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject:

I got a similar error on my laptop last week, strangely I found that when I reconfigured and compiled a new kernel the problem went away. I'm still not sure what the exact cause of it was.
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Dillinger · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=79511&highlight=var+log+wtmp

I've had this problem a couple times before, this thread helped me out.
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