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#1 2009-05-09 04:00:51

falconed
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Registered: 2009-04-12
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Gnome won't start!

Hey everyone!

I have been following the GNOME wiki and have installed gnome, gnome-extra, gnome-system-tools.

Originally I managed to get fam and hal running without a problem, however, no HAL doesn't want to start. Even after:

/etc/rc.d/hal restart

- It says it fails, yet FAM is working properly.

Another problem I have is when I type:

gnome-session

I get the following output

** (gnome-session:3014): WARNING **: Cannot open display:

Also:

startx

Output:

-bash: startx: command not found

Any help would be great! I really want to get Arch working on my laptop!

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#2 2009-05-09 04:17:01

Allan
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Re: Gnome won't start!

Have you installed xorg?

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#3 2009-05-09 04:22:12

falconed
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Registered: 2009-04-12
Posts: 10

Re: Gnome won't start!

Thanks for the quick reply.

No I haven't installed Xorg. Should I? It didn't mention it in the Gnome wiki.

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#4 2009-05-09 04:29:22

falconed
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Registered: 2009-04-12
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Re: Gnome won't start!

My fiddling has gotten the better of me.

I just ran:
pacman -S xorg
And I get an error saying /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc already exists. Obviously from me creating it trying to get gnome working.

How would I delete that directory/file?

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#5 2009-05-09 06:05:15

falconed
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Registered: 2009-04-12
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Re: Gnome won't start!

Okay I managed to install xorg.

I still get the same problem running gnome-session.

However, I can now run "startx" and the gnome desktop runs (mouse and trackpad don't work).

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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#6 2009-05-09 07:01:52

Joe_Arch
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Registered: 2008-11-27
Posts: 67

Re: Gnome won't start!

Does the keyboard work? If not, sounds like a hot-plugging issue.

You should probably read that whole section on Xorg. Understanding what X is/how it works is pretty important.

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#7 2009-05-09 07:25:46

SpeedVin
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From: Poland
Registered: 2009-04-29
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Re: Gnome won't start!

I nothing helps try install hwd (pacman -S hwd) and try generate your xorg.conf by hwd -xa smile

Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-05-09 07:26:30)


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