[Solved] gnome won't go past log in - yes I've read the wiki's

Noooooooooob · 2007-10-05 20:46:52

Okay, I think my name says it all - I had zero, and I mean no Linux experience of any kind a week ago. That said - I'm willing to learn and I've read everything possible on this site to try and solve this problem.

Now lets assume that I've followed the beginners/official install and gnome guides (and re-read them and others several times)

I can get to the Gnome file manager log in. I can select the Xclient session, themes and lenguage,etc.
But . . . once I enter my user name and password it says: "System has no Xclients file" before sending me to the promt. So, as per what I read, I created ~/.xsession and added exec gnome session. This doesn't go away.

Shouldn't I be able to select "gnome" from the "Session" tab?

The main issue is when I'm at the prompt and type in: "exec gnome-session" I get:
"bash:exec: gnome-session: not found". I know what you're thinking - and yes I've read that wiki.

My ~/.xinitrc file looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
#exec xterm
#exec wmaker
# exec startkde
exec gnome-session
# exec icewm
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox

When I enter: "startx" I get:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is already running, remove /tmp/.X0 -lock & start again
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

But I'm already in X (I'm just giving you everything I can here).

I had the "locale is invalid" problem - and fixed that as per the wiki hoping that it would help - no love.

I know alot of people have posted only to get the "read this wiki noob" responses. I've read everything I can and I still can't figure it out. Alot of other posts said that they could get to the prompt after the log in and then entered exec gnome-session w/ the ~/.xinitrc change - but that isn't working.

I'm sure that it is something simple/stupid that I'm missing - apologies. Hope someone can help.

Last edited by Noooooooooob (2007-10-05 22:26:14)

stonecrest · 2007-10-05 21:14:38

Noooooooooob wrote:

I can get to the Gnome file manager log in.

You mean the gnome display manager

Noooooooooob wrote:

The main issue is when I'm at the prompt and type in: "exec gnome-session" I get:
"bash:exec: gnome-session: not found".

You want to just type "gnome-session".. the exec part is only used for the last line of the .xinitrc file. When you type in a binary (like gnome-session, firefox, etc), you simply type in that name.

Sorry, this probably doesn't help with your fundamental questions/problems.

fwojciec · 2007-10-05 21:18:56

Are you sure you're not confusing "Gnome" with GDM? And yes, if you have Gnome installed it should show up as one of the available sessions in GDM (I'm assuming you're using GDM). To me it looks like you don't have Gnome installed at the moment.

ruscook · 2007-10-05 21:35:09

If you login to gdm as root does that work? If so then it's probably a /home/username permissions problem.

Russ

Noooooooooob · 2007-10-05 22:24:00

Thank you for the quick replies! I don't know what to say, I feel like a moron. I figured that, following the beginner's guide install, that gnome-extra would install gnome plus all the extras. I think having no prior knowledge of Linux contributed to that one - fwojciec, good call! I did Pacman -S gnome-extra without gnome itself first. I can't believe I've been beating my brains out for the past week over missing something like that. I did guess right though, it was stupid! Thanks!

fwojciec · 2007-10-05 22:36:25

I think for a complete Linux noob you did pretty good - getting the system installed and configured using command line, xorg-server and everything... That's not a bad achievement, most Linux noobs wouldn't have been able to get as far as you did by themselves, seriously, so don't feel too bad Anyways - welcome to Arch!

Misfit138 · 2007-10-05 23:39:37

fwojciec wrote:

I think for a complete Linux noob you did pretty good - getting the system installed and configured using command line, xorg-server and everything... That's not a bad achievement, most Linux noobs wouldn't have been able to get as far as you did by themselves, seriously, so don't feel too bad Anyways - welcome to Arch!

Agreed!
Most would not have endured this far; their patience would have expired and they would have given up. Congrats!
BTW, I will make that area of the Beginner'S Guide a bit more clear.

Arch Linux

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[Solved] gnome won't go past log in - yes I've read the wiki's

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