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zambizzi
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 Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject: gnome hosed...can't start a gnome-session? |
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I was running kde but decided to flip to gnome and it appears to be fubar'd.
I emerged gnome, all went well, no errors at all.
Once the install was complete, I changed my rc.conf to use "gnome" and "gdm" as opposed to the KDE values.
I added famd to default runlevel on boot.
I also changed my .xinitrc file to "exec gnome-session".
Rebooted, and I get the gdm screen, login, and I do not get a gnome-session...instead I get tvm or twm, whatever it's called....
I tried running gnome-session from the prompt and it tells me I'm already running a session.
I also now have a bunch of errors while booting as well that I did not have when I was using KDE such as "error calling unlink in global" while caching service dependencies, and in a couple of other places.
I mostly build and work with "headless" gentoo (and other linux) servers so I'm shooting in the dark on this one. All I could do was follow instructions but that didn't work out so well.
What gives?
Thanks!
-v
EDIT 1:
I killed the xsession and logged in as root, gnome works fine as root...now I just need my primary user to be able to launch a gnome-session, preferably w/o killing the account and creating a new one...
EDIT 2:
If this helps, here's what I found in a file in my home directory called ".xsession-errors":
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/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "vjenks"
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Cannot find Xclients
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- xsm
_IceTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_IceTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/bart:
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7214, errno = 0
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7216, errno = 0
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erikm
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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*bump*
Same boot errors here, in the same situation (recently switched to gnome from kde) on both my machines. I also get "action_compat ..." errors during boot. I have not, however, found any problem in my .xsession-errors file.
My gnome seems to work ok, though. At first nothing worked (of course, this is gentoo, remember  ), but after removing my kde related files from /tmp and my $HOME/.gnome* directories, it starts up and behaves more or less as expected. Perhaps a tad slower than I had hoped for...
Ideas, anyone? |
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cokey
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:53 am Post subject: |
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If i remember correctly this is linked to having udev and /dev both running
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