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Old 01-02-2004, 12:05 PM   #1
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Questions on finding Gnome and Xsession, etc.


Hi folks,

Gnome seems case-sensitive???

I performed following tests

On Konsole window

# updatedb

1)
# which Gnome
# which gnome
No printout

# whereis gnome
gnome: /etc/gnome /usr/share/gnome /usr/share/man/man1/gnome.1.gz
# whereis Gnome
Gnome:


# locate gnome | grep gnome
.....
...
# locate -i gnome | grep -i gnome
....
,,,
# locate Gnome | grep Gnome
/etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome
........
.....
then I found it


2)
# which xsession
# which Xsession
No printout

# whereis xsession
xsession:
# whereis Xsession
Xsession: /usr/share/man/man5/Xsession.5.gz

# locate -i xsession | grep -i xsession
/etc/gdm/Sessions/Xsession
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
/etc/X11/Xsession
....
Then I found them.

Is there a shortcut to search /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome other than performing
all such steps mentioned above

TIA

B.R.
satimis
 
Old 01-02-2004, 12:44 PM   #2
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Did you try "find" ??
Code:
find . -name gnome
where syntax = find PATH EXPRESSION
 
Old 01-02-2004, 12:54 PM   #3
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Did you try "find" ??
Code:
find . -name gnome
where syntax = find PATH EXPRESSION
# find . -name gnome
# find -name gnome

all no output

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Old 01-02-2004, 03:19 PM   #4
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Precisely what are you looking for? All instances of the word Gnome/gnome in your entire filesystem?
 
Old 01-02-2004, 06:03 PM   #5
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and ehhhh, did you run find . -name ganome from the / ??

(or did find / -name gnome ??? )
 
Old 01-02-2004, 11:08 PM   #6
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Hi all folks,

I can't start GNOME but can start KDE. What I am looking for is to edit the executable files which govern starting GNOME

I tried 'startx' on 'Xterm' after login 'Failsafe Gnome' without success. Following warning popup;
....
...
xlib:connnection to ":0.0" refused by server
xlib:Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIT-1 key giving up
xinit:unable to connect to Xsession
xinit:No such process (error 3): Server error

localhost:~# find / -name gnome
/etc/gnome
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/desktop/gnome
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/desktop/gnome
/usr/share/terminfo/g/gnome
/usr/share/gnome
/usr/share/gramps/gnome
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gnome

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Old 01-03-2004, 01:50 PM   #7
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You might try this:
Code:
# X :0 &
# DISPLAY=:0;export DISPLAY
#gnome-session
This will start the Xserver, then sets the display variable to your X server and startup gnome.

Other trick might be running gdm

Satch
 
Old 01-04-2004, 05:39 AM   #8
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Originally posted by Satriani
You might try this:
Code:
# X :0 &
# DISPLAY=:0;export DISPLAY
#gnome-session
This will start the Xserver, then sets the display variable to your X server and startup gnome.

Other trick might be running gdm

Satch
Hi,

Thanks for your advice


New discovery :-
===============
gnome-session found not installed yet

# apt-get install gnome-session


Now GNOME can login but its desktop still failed to start with following warning;

ERROR
There was an error starting the GNOME_Settings Daemon

Some things such as Themes, sounds or background settings may not work correctly

The Setting Daemon restarted too many times

The last error message was
Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_Setting Daemon'
GNOME will still try to restart the Setting Daemon
next time your login
<close>

Clicked <close>

I can start Debian applications there such as
- Mozilla 1.0.0
- Kmail
- OpenOffice Write
etc.

Kindly advise where can I edit the Settings to start GNOME desktop

TIA

B.R.
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