On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 04:47 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I had to completely reinstall Gentoo the other day (partitioning problem).
>  I got the base system up and emerged gnome.  I've done this several times
> before, but this time when I run startx all I get is twm. 
> DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" and XSESSION="Gnome" in /etc/rc.conf .  I'm out of
> ideas, but I want gnome back.  Can anyone help me?

I restored a backup archive I had of my personal account made two days
ago and logged in as michael to xdm.  It put me in gnome.  I'm not sure
why.  I checked for /home/michael/.xinitrc and it doesn't exist.
However, when I log in as root it still puts me in twm.  Any thoughts on
this one?  

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