Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:52 -0400 Nick Khamis 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

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.

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
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

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 o

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:28 -0400 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. Not sure what you mean by "gentoo" in the last sentence. Perhaps you mean

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 Nick Khamis
hald is running too

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

[gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, I got gnome to fire with some problems: 1) startx startx gnome but rc-update add xdm default starts xdm: ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" That is not my problem, the reason why I am almost getting blue in the face is because when I issue a start