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FIR3
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 Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: Gnome install [solved] |
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I just installed gnome and finally got all my problems with X worked out which was due to nvidia drivers. But now I can only run gnome as root... Whenever I try my regular username it says your $HOME/.dmrc file has incorrect permissions and is being ignored... but .dmrc doesn't even exist in my home dir...
I was following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml and i'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but these commands didn't run because the program couldn't be found even after I emerged it twice
# /etc/init.d/mDNSResponder start
# rc-update add mDNSResponder default
Also it says to run this command under my regular username
echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc
I get -bash: /home/matt/.xinitrc: Permission denied
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hypronix
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Looks like your home folder isn't yours. Try a
as root an make sure you see something along the lines of
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hypronix@inferno /home $ ls -l
drwxr-x--- 93 hypronix users 4.0K Feb 5 21:28 hypronix/
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As you can see the /home/hypronix folder does actually belong to me  . It is possible it's still owned by root, if that's the case, as root do a
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chmod -R matt:users /home/matt
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This should solve the echo issue... try again after that with Gnome and see what comes up [if anything].
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FIR3
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, problem solved on that part...
Do I need to fix these commands that weren't working?
# /etc/init.d/mDNSResponder start
# rc-update add mDNSResponder default |
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hypronix
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| This post seems to indicate that they're not 100% needed, however since I do not run Gnome this is as much as I can help you... let people know how it turns out so that maybe someone else is able to help if you're still stuck. |
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crudh
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: Gnome install |
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| FIR3 wrote: | I was following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml and i'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but these commands didn't run because the program couldn't be found even after I emerged it twice
# /etc/init.d/mDNSResponder start
# rc-update add mDNSResponder default |
You only need to run these if you have built GNOME with the "howl" use flag. If you have and the commands doesn't exist, are you sure you did emerge "howl" and not "mDNSResponder"? Howl is used by GNOME and it installes the mDNSResponder-scripts. |
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hypronix
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't setting the USE flag pull in the application? I mean, that's the behavior I've generally noticed [for certain flags where other application provide functionality] |
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crudh
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, it should. Don't know why it didn't if it didn't do it for you. |
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