Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:
>
>> I have tried to install Gnome on two different machines running
>> OpenBSD 4.2.
>> The first machine ran Gnome fine under OpenBSD 4.1 (though there
>> were other problems)
>>
>> One both machines - fresh installs gdm starts I can attempt to logon
>> but I get a fatal error after logging on
>> and a request to look in ~/.xsession for further information.
>>
>
> This indicates that your session exited for some reason, probably an
> error in your sessions startup script (.xsession or some thing else in
> gnome case).
>
>
>> after acknowledging X restarts, I can do a failsafe terminal login
>> but nothing else.
>> I have looked in ~/.xsession as well as the X/gdm logs in /var/log
>> and the rest of the logs and can find no indications of a problem.
>>
>> A clue would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>
> Please provide more precise informations, *exact* copies of the error
> messages you see for instance, and more details on what files were
> edited in your home directory.
>
> Also misc@ or ports@ mmailing lists are more appropriate for this kind
> of questions.
>
I was able to trace things further. It failed trying to open
gnome-session.
Somehow despite the fact that I thought i had installed X and gnome,
somethings were missed.
Unfortunately that lead to a new problem.
When trying to install/re-install gnome I am getting missing expat
dependency issues all over the place.
With a bit of force I have been able to get things loaded anyway -
but can't get expat.
Now it is bombing trying to load libexpat.so.9 - which is not
anywhere on my system.
I found some messages suggesting that there are libexpat issues with
4.2 though theey sugest I can get it from
xbase42.tgz but I can not find it there.
Where can find libxpat and how can I persuade pkg_add that it is
installed ?
