Uninstalled GNOME by accident, but downloaded the source (gnome-desktop-2.8.3) and compiled. How do I get the login to "find" the GNOME installation?

Thanks

Fegenbush

Which do you mean?
1) You want gnome's display manager to ask for your login
2) You want gnome to start /after/ logging in
3) Both 1 and 2

I get a GUI login screen, that is good, but once I login, GNOME no longer starts. When I select GNOME safe mode, I get an error saying that the computer is unable to locate the GNOME installation. I would just like to be able to have the computer login to GNOME after login automatically.

Thanks

I assume you are running Fedora core 5? Why did you pull and compile from source?

up2date install --reinstall <pkg names here>

I've converted to Ubuntu my man. This would be ...so... easy on Debian. b)

Try this in a console screen ( CNTRL-ALT-F2 from login window, then login as root )

init 3
pkill -x gdm
pkill -x kdm
xinit
( wait awhile and then in the white xterm )
gnome-session 2>&1 | tee /tmp/error-report.txt

Cntrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server and get back to console.

Somehow post the /tmp/error-report.txt file.

OK, I DL'd and compiled, because source is what is on the GNOME page.

I am in some sort of limbo where I have a terminal window and FF, but NO DESKTOP

The commands that you wanted me to run, yeah, that wasn't really happening too well:

#xinit

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

I think that I need to create a symbolic link from somewhere to the GNOME install that may have been deleted when I accidentally uninstalled the desktop...

Thanks

Fegenbush

You may have to edit:
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
and
/etc/X11/prefdm

To point to wherever 'make install' put GNOME