Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:55:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> Cc: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GNOME Message-ID: <20020813175401.X29756-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3D597C5D.8564DD25@charter.net>
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Parker Brown wrote: > Actually, I did that when I reinstalled 4.6 yesterday. Please help me here, > as I'm having problems understanding. GNOME seems to be installed, but I > can't find it. pkg_info says it's installed, but pkg_info -L hasn't a clue > where or what it is. Trying to run make in the ports packages predictably > says it's already installed, but even a successful make deinstall and make > reinstall leaves me with "so what's new?" > > On a hunch, I tried running gdm, but as user it says "only root wants to run > gdm." and as root it says it can't find a group or something like that. Can > editing something get me around this? You should have a gdm user and a gdm group on your system. This is done by gdm at install time. If the user or group is missing, you should create a user and group with uid:gid 92. The /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm directory should be owned by this user and group. GNOME can be started in one of two ways. You can either crank up gdm, or, if you're using startx, add: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session As the last line of your ~/.xinitrc file. Joe > > Pb > > John Bleichert wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Parker Brown wrote: > > > > > Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:06:41 -0700 > > > From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> > > > To: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > Subject: GNOME > > > > > > Tried to install gnome using pkg_add sometime yesterday. pkg-add > > > couldn't find it (please see attachment "gnome.prob"). > > > > > > Then began a real nightmare --- I tried to install it from the ports > > > section. After just over three hours, the installation had gobbled up > > > some 280 Mb of disk space, so I stopped it, cleaned up what I could, and > > > went to bed. This morning I restarted it (only about 260 Mb available > > > this time). After just about precisely three hours the installation > > > aborted because it was "out of disk space." (please see attachment > > > "ROCKSOLIDDISKMANAGEMENT"). > > > > > > Installation requires more that six (6) hours and more that 500 Mb of > > > disk space? I've got a very fast cable connection, a Pentium II with > > > 192 Mb RAM, and a SCSI drive. > > > > > > Needless to say, I'll forget about gnome. But how about putting a > > > warning statement in /usr/ports/x11/gnome/pkg_comment in the future. > > > Really. > > > > > > Pb > > > > > > > Instead of building it from source, why not just install the packages from > > your CD, pre-built? > > > > /* > > * John Bleichert > > * syborg@stny.rr.com > > * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > > */ > > -- > Pb > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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