From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 12:18:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC3B16A402 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:18:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299F313C44B for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:18:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 16366 invoked from network); 10 May 2007 12:18:12 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 May 2007 12:18:12 -0000 Received: from Lowell-Desk.localdomain (Lowell-Desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9C928439; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:18:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by Lowell-Desk.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1147) id A771F1CD6E; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:18:08 -0400 (EDT) To: bob.middaugh@comcast.net (Bob Middaugh) References: <050720071745.4210.463F65D30007AC4900001072220073747808099A0E0B0B0703D20D010D@comcast.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:18:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <050720071745.4210.463F65D30007AC4900001072220073747808099A0E0B0B0703D20D010D@comcast.net> (Bob Middaugh's message of "Mon\, 07 May 2007 17\:45\:55 +0000") Message-ID: <44zm4ceutb.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: starting GDM gets me an xterm, not the Gnome desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:18:13 -0000 bob.middaugh@comcast.net (Bob Middaugh) writes: > Hi everyone, > I installed 6.2 and chose X-Developer for the distribution. After the install, but still in sysinstall, chose gnome from the packages. When gnome finished installing, I rebooted. I did startx as root and got the xterm, but when I typed gdm from the prompt, nothing happened. > > So, I went back into sysinstall and chose gdm(usually it gets installed as a D). After the gdm install, I did startx as root, got the xterm, typed gdm, got the gdm dialog box and logged in. Instead of getting the gnome desktop, I got an xterm session. This has never happened to me before, and I know I've been doing it this way since 6.1 for sure, but probably 6.0 as well. > > Does anyone have any insight as to why I'm not getting the gnome desktop? Don't start gdm with X already running. To start it automatically, use the rc.d script.