From owner-freebsd-gnome Tue Feb 4 10:37:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A51637B427 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE2443F9B for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h14IaIDZ061828; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:36:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: gnome2 install on 5.0 From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Kirk R Wythers Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200302041448.h14EmoH02993@challenge.software.umn.edu> References: <200302041448.h14EmoH02993@challenge.software.umn.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-DYJOP295TOL/GRY47kFC" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1044383810.323.2.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 04 Feb 2003 13:36:50 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-DYJOP295TOL/GRY47kFC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:48, Kirk R Wythers wrote: > >> 1) does gnome2 just need me to create a .xinitrc file with 'exec > >> gnome-session' in it to start? or am I missing something else? >=20 > >Yep, assuming you start X using startx. Make sure ~/.xinitrc is > executable. >=20 > ~/.xinitrc is executable with 744. I can start gnome2 as root (yes I have > wrapper installed)... but if I start try and start gnome2 as a regular us= er > (either startx or xinit), I get the error: >=20 > **ERROR**: I Can't write to /tmp/orbit-kwythers, ORB failed aborting... Try deleting any orbit* directories in /tmp, and try again. Joe >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-DYJOP295TOL/GRY47kFC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+QAhCb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkI5AJ4rfOv5FFTit9rxcm5cMFRHOMwGhwCfcwPQ V43/R0m0UpOC+UkxF+eYc9A= =s0d/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-DYJOP295TOL/GRY47kFC-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message