How to manually start gnome?

[Seth G]

How curious. I ran rpm -qa | grep -i xfree and it returned nothing. So then 
I just ran rpm -qa and visually inspected the packages. I have a ton of 
entries for Gnome but not a single for "xfree".

I'm running version 4.

Why would the installer install and setup for xwindows and then fail to 
install it?

>From: "Smith, Albert" <Albert.Smith at genexservices.com>
>Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: RE: How to manually start gnome?
>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:12:29 -0500
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> > -----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 7:08 PM
> > To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: How to manually start gnome?
> >
> > Well, I just want to get the windowing system working at all.
> > When it enters init level 5, upon boot up, I get the typical
> > error of "Init(x) respawning too fast" which after much
> > research I determined to mean that the X windows subsystem
> > isn't starting.
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "Smith, Albert" <Albert.Smith at genexservices.com>
> > >Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > ><redhat-list at redhat.com>
> > >To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> > >Subject: RE: How to manually start gnome?
> > >Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:04:55 -0500
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ed Greshko
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:27 PM
> > > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > > > Subject: Re: How to manually start gnome?
> > > >
> > > > 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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> > >gdm is the gnome display manager which handles the login and
> > everything
> > >else. If you just want to use Xwindows for just that session for the
> > >logged in user only then run startx. If you want it globally the put
> > >your self at run level 5. It should start all the needed resources.
> > >
> > >Albert Smith
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>What version of WS are you running? 3 or 4
>
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>Albert Smith
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>HPCSA, RHCT
>Genex Services
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