gnome via startx OK, gnome via gdm not.
Brian Millett
bmillett at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 18:23:10 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:49 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:45 -0600, Brian Millett wrote:
> > I have been booting into runlevel 3 for quite a while. After logging
> > in, I do a "startx" and enjoy the gnome desktop. After the latest
> > rawhide updates, I decided to try/test the runlevel 5 and log in via
> > gdm. I had several errors where gdm could not be launched and I saw
> > that the path it was trying was /usr/X11R6/bin/... , so I changed them
> > to /usr/bin/... When I did that, I got a nice gdm login screen. Trying
> > to log in however gives me only a session of "twm". It doesn't matter
> > if I try a kde session, gnome session, xfce4 session,etc. All I get is
> > a twm session.
>
> Try looking at /etc/sysconfig/desktop and see if you see anything in
> there.
>
> If anything, maybe backup your /home/user dir, delete
> any .gnome/whatever files and try starting it up from scratch and see
> what happens.
Ok, thanks. I forgot to mention that via the gdm, root and every other
user also gets a twm session, so I'll check the system level stuff like
the /etc/sysconfig files.
Thanks.
--
Brian Millett - [ G'Kar and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary"]
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