the reviews suggest slack is worth a try so loaded it today. i unclicked all the sound support since i don't need sound. now startx complains, wanting libesd.so.0. i think enlightenment wants sound even though i didn't install the packages. does anybody know how to get x running without loading the sound stuff? ( at least i think this is a sound issue )

thx if anybody has any ideas.
-bp

Well ... I don't use gnome or enlightenment,
but I know that X as such doesn't give a toss about sound :)

So, as a quick and dirty approach, it should be possible
to just delete the .files and .directories that contain gnomes
or enlightenment configuration data from your home directory ...

HIH...


Cheers,
Tink

thanks, that fixed it.

-bp

I have the exact same problem, installed slackware and unloaded sounds.
You said to get rid of any configureation data in my home directory.
I log on as root, so i assumed that /root was my home directory. I found nothing there worth deleting. I also checked /home to be safe, and nothing in there at all.

Am i looking in the wrong place? if so where would i find it?
thanks!

1.) you should not log on as root...add yourself as a user
2.) if you are using a gui file manager, enable 'show hidden files' in view on the menu

Ok, it dawned on me on how to find hideen files
deleted thoes asosiated with X and tried running it again, same problem.
I also tried it with a different user, still same problem.
help! i have hunted for a few hours on this topic. can't find anything that helps.

on a side note: when i "su x" (x being the user) "startx" no longer works, actually none of the bashes do, even if i su root, i have to reboot to get them working again.

1.) i think the instructions were to delete the gnome/enlightenment folders not X folders
2.) why are you su'ing to user? you should log in as user and su to root. have you added the user? "adduser [user]"?

1. su to other users was a side note, i logged in as X
2. I tried it using the other user, but i found nothing. and startx doesn't work still, same error.
this is the entire contents of my home directory:

.Xauthority
.bash_history
.kismet

Thats it, nothing else.
BTW its gnome that should be running.

here is the exact error

"gnome-session: error while laoding shared libraries: libesd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: NO such file or directory"

brand new user i just created and logged into
gnome once has the following files in ~/.home

drwx--x--x 11 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2004-09-15 01:58 ..
-rw------- 1 test users 157 2004-09-15 01:59 .ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 test users 118 2004-09-15 01:59 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 test users 24 2004-09-15 01:59 .dmrc
drwx------ 4 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .gconf
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .gconfd
drwx------ 5 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .gnome
drwx------ 7 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .gnome2_private
drwxr-xr-x 2 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .gstreamer-0.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 test users 90 2004-09-15 01:59 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
drwx------ 3 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .metacity
drwxr-xr-x 3 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 .nautilus
-rw------- 1 test users 0 2004-09-15 01:59 .recently-used
-rw-r--r-- 1 test users 3729 2004-09-15 01:58 .screenrc
-rw------- 1 test users 979 2004-09-15 02:00 .xsession-errors
drwxr-xr-x 2 test users 4096 2004-09-15 01:59 Desktop

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do you remember which files/folders you deleted?
were they in your ~/. folder or elsewhere?
if you deleted the actual X folders (not the user settings in ~/. )
then you will need to reinstall the X11 packages off your cd

Ok, i've tried making the new user, same old story
the files i deleted were in: /home/x
and this was the file: .Xauthority
nothing else, like i said, there is nothing else to delete.

you said you logged onto gnome, i havn't ever got on it, fresh install, tried to start it up for the first time and got that error.

*UPDATE*

ok, did some research on irc, and got some help.
Here is what solved the problem:

Installed the esound package
then got another libaudiofile.so.0 error
so i installed audiofile-0.2.6-i486-1

now it boots to gnome
not perfect mid you, still missing some icons, but i should be able to solve that

thanks for you help!