From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 07:08:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4B1106566C for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:08:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A248FC19 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj1 with SMTP id 1so4014458pwj.13 for ; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:08:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=EbZVAXuD4tB5WqePfcImuNGEisa4VDdbscb6B1RTChc=; b=Has172KqRPL0434xa9HTdIlXVAAom4xHxfr8vHs4edd/xx3IPMEoRxW9Ww2AEJ+oIo 7a0sbGrDtyj214Bi4/MdCCG7OjLV7VPgp5fpuRk9/YAvgKZQk792p9lnZ/K4mDi3CI07 OyVrps6lJaLXGhQ84BToJlFS6xM9fyWu1edtY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=MBqHZR9rvngkzmZqFpTmQY4rvP6tZxuEu3QiExenzNtYcqt6axAgwDyFzmAIo9SEj5 VW7O8O24ZfO41WWFJnz8klrlOMwDPIT+WdK7qZuMUj7pNI+gvvH4VNL/eVy6DYrsRQc2 o4e1DVrMq+OsvOG21FbdWUn5nggOnnX5Xen5o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.56.16 with SMTP id e16mr3006326wfa.109.1268032138684; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:08:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:08:58 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e1003072308g641eedffpf77757179dc54b54@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: n dhert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome install: stuck X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:08:59 -0000 On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM, n dhert wrote: > 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.) > > Sounds like you are in GDM, not gnome. There's probably a login button somewhere, you need to authenticate with the system then you'll be logged into the desktop. Also, it's just Alt-F9 to return to the graphical display, ctrl not needed there. -- Adam Vande More