Jeroen Valcke wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install GNOME on my system. > I followed the instructions from the GNOME User FAQ. > So I added deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian > unstable main to my sources.list > I ran apt-get update and after that did apt-get install task-helix-gnome > even did an additional apt-get dist-upgrade. > After that I tried running a Gnome-session. I logged in with gdm and > specified 'gnome' as session however I get kicked back to the gdm login > screen.
Does it fail for user and root? Look at /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf for clues. Check error msgs. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~