Can't start Gnome or XFCE [SOLVED]

[jbjoret]

I have emerge the gnome metapackage with a few hundred dependencies ... When I start it through GDM/KDM or startx, it will start show the Slash screen, and after the second icon in the splash starts ... it stops and leaves me with a mouse on a light blue background.
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Gentoo Kernel 2.6.10-r7 / Xorg 6.8.2-r1 / Gnome 2.8.3-r1 on a Thinkpad A22p (512 MB / 2x80 Gb / ATI M3 / Pentium III 1,0 Ghz)

[ekutay]

a meta package does not have to compile ...
to start gnome, you can use a xdm like gdm and choose the gnome session as value, or / and set it as default session in rc.conf. did I get you wrong?
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[jbjoret]

Hi,

gnome won't start (I don't have any problems with KDE 3.4 currenty in use), it will start with the spash screen looks normal for 3 secs and then just stop leaving me with a mouse and a background. I wanted to reemerge gnome. But you are right, I thought that emerging the metapackage would reemerge the whole thing. Problem is, since I was frustrated I emerged xfce (I want to move away from KDE), I have exactly the same problem, It starts, shows the background with the mouse and then nothing. I don't know in which logs I can look at.

Any idea ?
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Gentoo Kernel 2.6.10-r7 / Xorg 6.8.2-r1 / Gnome 2.8.3-r1 on a Thinkpad A22p (512 MB / 2x80 Gb / ATI M3 / Pentium III 1,0 Ghz)

[ekutay]

Actually all you have to do is

[jbjoret]

Maybe I did not explain my problem correctly. I have emerged gnome. Everything seem to be installed. But gnome won't start correctly. I don't know in which logfile I should look for the problem. xorg is ok since I have no problems at all to start kde. It has nothing to do with GDM since the problem Occurs with or without. Gnome starts, I see the welcome slash panel showing th<t it is bein loader, and then it stops and leave me with a mouse and nothing else. Same with xfce. Maybe I should change the title of this thread.
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Gentoo Kernel 2.6.10-r7 / Xorg 6.8.2-r1 / Gnome 2.8.3-r1 on a Thinkpad A22p (512 MB / 2x80 Gb / ATI M3 / Pentium III 1,0 Ghz)

[c0bblers]

Hmm, gnome AND xfce don't work....have you tried running a gnome app from inside KDE (since you say it works), e.g. fire up a kde terminal and type "gnome-terminal". Both gnome and xfce use GTK+, so if both don't work then maybe there's something wrong with gtk+. You could also check to see whether you have any broken libraries using revdep-rebuild (part of gentoolkit).

Cheers,
James

[ekutay]

Paste the output of a

[jbjoret]

Thank you everyone. The gtk idea was good. I finally came with the idea to create a new user and try to see what happens ... and guess what ... it worked. So I got rid of all my user gnome/gtk configurations and restarted witth success. There must have been something wrong with the user GTK settings I guess. Now I have to decide between Gnome & Xfce which is another story
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Gentoo Kernel 2.6.10-r7 / Xorg 6.8.2-r1 / Gnome 2.8.3-r1 on a Thinkpad A22p (512 MB / 2x80 Gb / ATI M3 / Pentium III 1,0 Ghz)