Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:46:08 +0100 From: n dhert <ndhertbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gnome install: stuck Message-ID: <ed7803cf1003072246s1a16a3eh4906f8fe3cd79d2@mail.gmail.com>
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Laptop with Freebsd 8.0, with gnome installed and gdm_enable="YES" gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, no changes to /etc/ttys (that is: ttyv8 ... xdm off) After reboot, system starts in gnome, gives a greenish background, a taskbar at the bottom, with only date/time, a button for 'Universal access preferences' and an icon for the battery. In the desktop a grey window with 2 buttons labeled 'Restart' and 'Shutdown'. Clicking either of them makes them be blueish for the time the mouse button in pressed, but nothing happens. I am stuck in Gnome. Why and how to solve it ? (I can only do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the command prompt, but even that I have to do twice: the first time it gives a flickering almost entirely black screen with at the top some half line of flickering ascii characters (can't read), doing a Ctrl-Alt-F9 (back to gnome) and again Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a stable login: prompt.)
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