Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Albert Hopkins 
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:25 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote:
 I got gnome to fire with some problems:
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Question: Is the dbus service running?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis 
dbus is running yes.

Please Help :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis 
hald is running too

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis 
When I do a:

rc-update add xdm default

Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought
I know its the right username password.

Regards,
Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb 
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:28 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote:

 When I do a:

 rc-update add xdm default

 Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought
 I know its the right username password.

Not sure what you mean by gentoo in the last sentence.  Perhaps you
meant gnome.  In that case the problem might be that you didn't set
gnome as your xsession in
/etc/rc.conf  (or /etc/conf.d/xdm).

allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Alan McKinnon 
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:35:28 Nick Khamis wrote:
 When I do a:
 
 rc-update add xdm default
 
 Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even
  thought I know its the right username password.

Root login to console or root login to X?

Almost every sane distro on the planet ships with X root login disabled. This 
is a very good thing and only stupid people expect otherwise or try to change 
it.

It is also possible to disable root login on the console (via pam) but this is 
not normally the default.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis 
Hello Sir,

~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session
/etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm

Thank You For Your Response, I did do that. I had Gnome fireed up and
working fine, then  I am not sure what was it I did that now it fires up
using startx but nothing works, my session is not loaded etc..

Thanks In Advanced,
Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis 
oops I did mean gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis 
oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible
using gnome so I figures what the heck. So that is fine (not being able to
login xdm using root). But I still have a problem in regard to gnome not
being able to work. Firefox does not start, nothing starts not even console.
I think this is a /home mounting issue.

Thanks for everyone help.

Regards,
Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb 
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:52 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote:

 oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible
 using gnome so I figures what the heck.

If you are using gnome (and hence gdm not xdm) then trying to login as
root from the gui results in a dialog box asking you if you REALLY want
to.  Do you get a dialog box?

allan