Re: gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praveen Kallakuri wrote: | hello guys, | | since the last 2 days, i have't had a window manager working. i had lost | gnome when i installed some msttcorefonts. after a couple of days of | posting on mailing lists and trying everything i could, i fi

Re: gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praveen Kallakuri wrote: | hello guys, | | since the last 2 days, i have't had a window manager working. i had lost | gnome when i installed some msttcorefonts. after a couple of days of | posting on mailing lists and trying everything i could, i fina

Re: gnome does not start

Hello... Praveen Kallakuri: [...] > i finally > removed everything xfree-, gnome-, etc and started afresh. How did you do that ? dselect or manually ? > i had the /etc/X11 dir almost empty. i know a lot of that is linked to > in /usr/X11R6/libs but not sure how much. what i want to say is, i did

Re: gnome does not start

Hello... Praveen Kallakuri: [...] > i finally > removed everything xfree-, gnome-, etc and started afresh. How did you do that ? dselect or manually ? > i had the /etc/X11 dir almost empty. i know a lot of that is linked to > in /usr/X11R6/libs but not sure how much. what i want to say is, i did

Re: gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saw the same problem on Solaris. You might want to create a new user with an empty homedrive and start gnome as that user. If that works create an empty homedrive for your own user and move back the config files directory by directory. - -- Jord

Re: gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saw the same problem on Solaris. You might want to create a new user with an empty homedrive and start gnome as that user. If that works create an empty homedrive for your own user and move back the config files directory by directory. - -- Jord

Re: gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well i guess that was something i dint try after installing the new X. but i tried it now, and i get the same behavior. note that i got twm to work. so i think its a gnome specific problem, but not having anything to do with userlevel or /etc/ config

Re: gnome does not start

I would suggest rather than using xdm, you start X using startx, then starting gnome from within X so you can get some error messages. regards Michael Westwind --- Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hello guys, > > since the las

gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello guys, since the last 2 days, i have't had a window manager working. i had lost gnome when i installed some msttcorefonts. after a couple of days of posting on mailing lists and trying everything i could, i finally removed everything xfree-, gno

Re: gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well i guess that was something i dint try after installing the new X. but i tried it now, and i get the same behavior. note that i got twm to work. so i think its a gnome specific problem, but not having anything to do with userlevel or /etc/ config

Re: gnome does not start

I would suggest rather than using xdm, you start X using startx, then starting gnome from within X so you can get some error messages. regards Michael Westwind --- Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hello guys, > > since the last

gnome does not start

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello guys, since the last 2 days, i have't had a window manager working. i had lost gnome when i installed some msttcorefonts. after a couple of days of posting on mailing lists and trying everything i could, i finally removed everything xfree-, gno