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RAH

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[SOLVED] Broken Gnome

Hello,

Everything was going well and I installed a few packages etc. After rebooting when I run gnome-session I get the following errors:

Gtk-WARNING **:
locale not supported by C library
using the fallback 'C' locale

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

When attempting to run x it gives this error:

cannot execute /usr/bin/gdm

After checking, this path doesn't exist.

I have tried pacman -S gdm and it doesn't make any difference. That path still doesn't exist. Xorg was installed.

How do I resolve this? I'm running Arch x64.

Thanks.

Last edited by RAH (2008-06-22 21:32:08)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
edit /etc/locale.gen and then run locale-gen

gdm is in /usr/sbin/gdm.

Last edited by wonder (2008-06-21 16:48:41)

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tigrmesh

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

Hello,

You probably have some .pacnew files in /etc that need to be merged.  You want to replace the current config files with the .pacnew ones (adding in all of your changes).  Also check for .pacsave files.  Those will have your changes, that you'll want to merge into the config files.

Confused?  See 'man pacman' (Handling Config Files section) for more info.

RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
edit /etc/locale.gen and then run locale-gen

gdm is in /usr/sbin/gdm.

What exactly do I edit in /etc/locale.gen?  It looks fine to me.

How do I set the correct location for gdm?

Hello,

You probably have some .pacnew files in /etc that need to be merged.  You want to replace the current config files with the .pacnew ones (adding in all of your changes).  Also check for .pacsave files.  Those will have your changes, that you'll want to merge into the config files.

Confused?  See 'man pacman' (Handling Config Files section) for more info.

I'm extremely confused now lol, had a look at the manual and I still don't understand what I should be doing.  Sorry!

tigrmesh

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

locale:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_locales.

pacsave files:  I'll repeat what i wrote: 

You probably have some .pacnew files in /etc that need to be merged.  You want to replace the current config files with the .pacnew ones (adding in all of your changes).  Also check for .pacsave files.  Those will have your changes, that you'll want to merge into the config files.

Btw:  welcome to the Arch forums!

Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-06-21 17:45:27)

JeremyTheWicked

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

How are you trying to run X? If you want to use gdm you should add it to the end of the daemons list in rc.conf. If you're using startx you shouldn't rund gdm directly.

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

locale:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_locales.

pacsave files:  I'll repeat what i wrote: 

You probably have some .pacnew files in /etc that need to be merged.  You want to replace the current config files with the .pacnew ones (adding in all of your changes).  Also check for .pacsave files.  Those will have your changes, that you'll want to merge into the config files.

Btw:  welcome to the Arch forums!

OK,  I understand now.  I manually attempted to merge the changes from the pacnew files.  Didn't see any pacsave.  I'm sure there is a much better way of merging?  There is no difference after doing so.  Also I noticed when running gdm I get "The greeter application appears to be crashing.  Attempting to use a different one" , then it stays in a loop for 5 attempts.  I just hope I haven't done more damage by attempting to manually merge the changes using a pen and a scrap of paper lol.  I really do appreciate your help with this!  Thanks again.

RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

Perhaps I should re-install Gnome - would I lose any packages I installed if I did this?  I'm guessing not as they are kept seperate right?

dryhte

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

I've got the same issue.

I installed Core (latest release, 2007.08-2), and updated it, and then I started to get a bunch of 'locale' error messages.

Is there a better way of installing? I don't mind reinstalling with a 'beta' iso, as long as I'd be assured of having a system that works without any problems. I'm not totally sure of what was changed with regard to locales, but this is the first time ever that I see them as an issue in linux (btw - I don't use gnome, I installed xfce)

Last edited by dryhte (2008-06-21 22:22:42)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

read
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

I'm still not quite sure how the locale topic is related to my issue.  Any other suggestions before I re-install?

Garns

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

Is there a better way of installing? I don't mind reinstalling with a 'beta' iso, as long as I'd be assured of having a system that works without any problems.

The 2008.04-rc isos work really good, normally. You can get them on your favourite mirror in the iso directory.

@Topic

How exactly are you trying to run gnome? Can you post your ~/.xinitrc?

yvonney

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

One thing I found when doing the install IS that as long as I opened up and checked the locals (can't recall what it was in the list though it's about 7 or 8th down - it's the part that makes you look at the config/select a mirror etc. that page) when I EXITED some locals files were written... I think that's why i no longer get ANY locale errors...

moljac024

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

How are you trying to run X? If you want to use gdm you should add it to the end of the daemons list in rc.conf. If you're using startx you shouldn't rund gdm directly.

Actually it's better to boot to runlevel 5 directly and start it that way via inittab.

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

How exactly are you trying to run gnome? Can you post your ~/.xinitrc?

My ~/.xinitrc contains a simple "exec gnome-session".  However that's another issue - for some reason that file keeps going missing and I have to re-create it.  However the same issue persists even when the file is there.

Last edited by RAH (2008-06-22 12:44:49)

allbluedream

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

I probably encountered the same problem, but it was gone after a reboot...

RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

Fixed it - inittab referenced /bin/ instead of /sbin/ and / partition was full.

tigrmesh

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Re: [SOLVED] Broken Gnome

Would you please mark this thread as solved?  (edit your first post)  Thanks.