From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 21:02:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37286E7D for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:02:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millenia2000@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.190.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13AAA8FC12 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:02:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BAY165-DS4 ([65.54.190.61]) by bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:01:15 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [174.252.117.177] X-EIP: [QMfryQ2WrzH8BZdA3vAzfhWetnETsTjZi7L4uoPPDes=] X-Originating-Email: [millenia2000@hotmail.com] Message-ID: From: Sean Cavanaugh To: "'Harry Veltman'" , References: <000701cdcbde$290eb3a0$6501a8c0@harryveltman> In-Reply-To: <000701cdcbde$290eb3a0$6501a8c0@harryveltman> Subject: RE: gnome won't start. HELP PLEASE! Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:01:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: AQKubbEx+WQLG+41FO8xLDHWsIvoyZY7VnEQ Content-Language: en-us X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Nov 2012 21:01:15.0577 (UTC) FILETIME=[2C75AA90:01CDCC19] X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:02:22 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > gnome@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Harry Veltman > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 8:59 AM > To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org > Subject: gnome won't start. HELP PLEASE! > > I installed FreeBSD-9.0-amd64-dvd1.iso, including every package on the DVD, > which includes GNOME and FIREFOX, but when I start FreeBSD and login, all I > get is a command line starting with #. Why doesn't the GUI open? > Short answer, because you never told it to. FreeBSD is the operating system. Just because you have GNOME installed, you have not explicitly told it to launch it upon startup. To correct it, please read http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome