xwindos not starting
hello all,
Having a problem that is probably an easy fix, xcept for this noob- running slackware 9.1 and just finished installing. Install went great. Logged in fine, but Xwindows will not start- ran xf86config and "dumbed it down" a little, and got it set so that my HW shouldn't be a problem( ran RH on this box a while back w/o issue). It quits when it tries to run the last line of xinitrc which is exec gnome-session. I had chosen Gnome during setup, and startx looks to be executing fine until that point. Looked in xfree86.0.log, and nothing looks out of the ordinary- that is to say, no glaring "ERROR"s were found. Any thoughts? |
so xfree86.0.log doesn't include any lines that start with (WW) or (EE) ?
hm..you could try to see if this helps: first, as root, do updatedb to make sure your search database is up-to-date. after it's finished (may take a while), run locate gnome-session | more and when you get something, scroll down if needed, and see where the executable is (something like /usr/bin/gnome-session or where ever it's installed). when you get the path, edit the .xinitrc file and replace the line exec gnome-session with exec /path/to/your/gnome-session this handles the problem that might occur if gnome-session isn't in your PATH; that is, your system can't automatically find it simply by it's name. now save .xinitrc and retry startx... |
There are two(2) WW error messages,actually.
One initially, that reads (WW) Open APM Failed(/dev/apm_bios) (no such device) and another that is just saying that it is ignoring extraneous synch rates I am running the updatedb, and will try your path suggestions when it is complete |
Well,
The good news is that this is the best way to learn. The bad news is that the updatedb with subsequent LOCATE did not turn up a gnome-session file. I ran pkgtool and re-selected GNOME as the preferred desktop; I also tried selecting KDE to see what happened. That failed too. I think that I either I am missing something obvious, or there might be a hardware issue. |
no, if you have installed Gnome desktop, you really should have the gnome-session file...perhaps you should try to reinstall Gnome (if it's possible)?
try to locate the other gnome files too, and see what you have: locate gnome | less you should get a lot of output..but scroll down and look. if you see /something/bin/ -directory that has gnome's files, go there and see what you got. gnome-session should reside in the same place than gnome-panel, gnome-about, gnome-help and some other gnome-something binaries.. |
The only gnome-sessions that I have are in /etc/gconf.xml.defaults/apps and etc/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps. Earlier, I tried changing the path to the 1st one above, and got a File/Directory Not Found Error. I will try it again, though, as I might have screwed something up. Seems like an odd place for it to end up, though..
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No good on either of those, though I did find out that I was editing the wrong xinitrc file. Found the one that xf86config was calling, and changed that. No luck. I did notice, however, that when I change the path, I get a File/Directory not found error, whereas when it is left as gnome-session, I just get 'not found'.....though I don't think that that is really anything but a different message depending on whether you specify an explicit path versus an iplicit path....
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all set now, thx b0uncer- turned out to be a corrupted build. How, I am not sure. Noticed other issues, and rebuilt. Installed with individual package acknowledgement, and it went fine. Posting this reply on it now.
thx |
hi,
Please try the following command and then run X windows TERM=xterm |
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