gnome starts only in failsafe mode

nabla

hi,
my new gnome desktop does not load. it just displays the welcome screen (the little gnome-foot), but does not show any more activities. after a while, it starts switching screen resolutions and then returns back to the login-screen.

when started in failsafe mode, gnome works fine, but displays two error messages: 1) not enable to start screensaver 2) no soundmixer found.
i think, that these errors are not the problem.

many thanks for help
cu nabla

Leoric · n00b Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Oslo, Norway

I have used Gnome 1.3 and gnome2 for a while, and it has worked perfectly, but when I reinstalled to gentoo 1.4 yesterday, gnome didnt work.
The same thing as you are describing are happending. I start gdm and login, the splashscreen comes up, changes resolution and exits back to gdm.
If I add gnome-session to .xinitrc and start x with "startx", gnome starts, but I get a crash error on nautilus and xscreensaver.

I have only emerged gnome, nothing else,(except metalog and vcron...)

X works normaly when I use blackbox, so it isnt a X problem.

Looks like a bug or something

maKKus · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 12:03 pm Post subject:

It would have been wise if you used the search with "gnome AND failsafe", this would lead you to this:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19194&highlight=

In shot /etc/fonts/fonts.conf doesn't include the right fontpaths

rac · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 8:38 pm Post subject:

Can people comment as to whether maKKus' pointer addresses their situation?
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Leoric · n00b Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Oslo, Norway

Gnome is now starting, but nautilus, xscreensaver and gnome-console is still crashing... It works just like it did in "fail-safe mode"...

I have used gnome2 some time now, and never had problems like this

Leoric · n00b Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Oslo, Norway

xscreensaver was not emerged, i managed to fix that

Nautilus crashes on start and gnome-console give me "Could not execute command : No such file or directory" and exits...

rac · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 10:35 pm Post subject:

Leoric, could you look at the last entry of your user's /etc/passwd entry? Is it possible that there is no login shell?
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Leoric · n00b Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Oslo, Norway

Hey!,

I thought it added /bin/bash by default; gnome-terminal is now working. Thank you!

3 down - 1 to go. Nautilus is still not working...