How to manually start gnome?

[Smith, Albert]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Seth G
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:06 PM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: How to manually start gnome?
> 
> Thanks for the tip Ed,
> 
> actually when I run "startx" I get the error that the command 
> was not found. 
> Similarly a locate for startx (after the database was built) 
> returns nothing. I also checked for that log file (The 
> XFree86) and I couldn't find it.
> 
> I'm running v. 4 of Enterprise WS
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
> >Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list 
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> >To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: How to manually start gnome?
> >Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:27:23 +0800
> >
> >Seth G wrote:
> >>I just installed Enterprise Linux WS and get the typical 
> error "Init "x" 
> >>respawning too fast" when X windows won't start.
> >>
> >>I'm trying to start it manually to get a more explicit 
> error (yes I've 
> >>checked /var/log/messages) but I guess startx has been deprecated.
> >>
> >>What's the new method for starting gnome manually? Keep in 
> mind that 
> >>I'm already at Init(5) and gnome is not launching.
> >
> >startx is just fine....but you don't say what level of RH you are 
> >running either.  You may actually want to look in 
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
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Check to see if X windows is installed:

rpm -qa |grep -i xfree

You should see something similar to the following:

XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29                  
XFree86-xdm-4.1.0-29                           
XFree86-devel-4.1.0-29                         
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29         
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29                   
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29        
XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-29                           
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29       
XFree86-twm-4.1.0-29                           
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.1.0-29                
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29         
XFree86-4.1.0-29                               
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29        
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-29        
XFree86-tools-4.1.0-29                         
XFree86-KOI8-R-1.0-6                           
XFree86-libs-4.1.0-29                          
XFree86-jpfonts-2.1-24                         
XFree86-KOI8-R-75dpi-fonts-1.0-6               

Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
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