Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:34:35 -0700 (PDT) From: <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Gnome green screen of death Message-ID: <20130926193435.DRK47122@ms5.mc.surewest.net>
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Good afternoon, dear FreeBSD enthusiast. I have installed X11 and Gnome on my computer equipped with FreeBSD 9.1. The X11 and Gnome packages were taken from the d.v.d.-r.o.m. that contained the operating system. The computer is an H.P. Z220 with an Intel Xeon quad-core processor. I do not want Gnome to start automatically on bootup. I wish to call it from the command line on the local console. When I have finished working with Gnome, I expect the operating system to return me to console session from which Gnome was called. I have started Gnome with the command "exec gdm-session". I do not know if the "exec" keyword is necessary, but it worked. When I am finished working with Gnome, I click on the logoff (or logout?) button. The screen turns solid green with none of icons, characters, image, or splash. The computer does not respond to the keyboard. When I cut the power to the computer, and then reboot, I receive a sequence of messages complaining that ada0s3a, ada0s3d, and so on, are corrupt, and that I must run fdsk. What am I doing wrong here? The following error messages, which are shown only partially because they flash quickly on the screen, appear before Gnome starts: a) Authority server root file does not exist b) .../serverauth.1119doc.... does not exist c) X.authority does not exist d) ** (gnome-session:1121): WARNING **: Cannot open display: On reboot, e) The file entitled root/.xsession-errors contains 368 lines, including the following: e1) DEBUG:GsmAutostartAppp This program is not intended to be run as root e2) gnome-session: Fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. e3) Window manager warning fatal IO error 35 (resource temporarily unavailable) on display ':0'. Any and all comments and suggestions will be appreciated. Sincerely, Newby Lee
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