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Date:      04 Feb 2003 14:47:06 -0600
From:      "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gnome2 install on 5.0
Message-ID:  <1044391626.2408.6.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1044383810.323.2.camel@gyros>
References:  <200302041448.h14EmoH02993@challenge.software.umn.edu> <1044383810.323.2.camel@gyros>

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On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 12:36, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> > >Yep, assuming you start X using startx.  Make sure ~/.xinitrc is
> > executable.
> > 
> > ~/.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 user
> > (either startx or xinit), I get the error:
> > 
> > **ERROR**: I Can't write to /tmp/orbit-kwythers, ORB failed aborting...
> 
> Try deleting any orbit* directories in /tmp, and try again.
> 

Seems that /tmp was not writable for usrers (dono how that happened).
Any ways... I reset the permissions for /tmp and all is cool...


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