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phobossion

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Registered: 2012-02-10

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[SOLVED] GNOME won't start properly

Hello,
I have just started with Arch and already encountered a newbie problem I installed Arch ok using the beginner's guide, the base system is ok, I got up to the point of installing desktop environment (GNOME3 is my choice). I installed mesa, drivers, X etc and Gnome ofc. I added "... dbus gdm..." into DAEMONS array and rebooted. The blue Gnome wallpaper shows normally but the login window is not the usual black Shell one, but grey old-looking instead (fallback mode?). I've got only the ugly X's clock cursor but I can click on my user's name and login. However, nothing appears, just the same blue background and the clock cursor

Anyone has an idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks

Last edited by phobossion (2012-02-11 09:29:09)

oboedad55

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From: Baku

Registered: 2011-04-05

Posts: 392

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME won't start properly

Hello,
I have just started with Arch and already encountered a newbie problem I installed Arch ok using the beginner's guide, the base system is ok, I got up to the point of installing desktop environment (GNOME3 is my choice). I installed mesa, drivers, X etc and Gnome ofc. I added "... dbus gdm..." into DAEMONS array and rebooted. The blue Gnome wallpaper shows normally but the login window is not the usual black Shell one, but grey old-looking instead (fallback mode?). I've got only the ugly X's clock cursor but I can click on my user's name and login. However, nothing appears, just the same blue background and the clock cursor

Anyone has an idea what I might be doing wrong? Thanks

Please post your rc.conf. Also, which video card and drivers and how did you install Gnome?

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phobossion

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Registered: 2012-02-10

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME won't start properly

Well I don't know how to get to the terminal because I'm stuck with the gnome wallpaper so I can't post exactly the contents of that file but IIRC I chnged only one thing from the stock rc.conf and that is the DAEMONS array as described in my first post. I installed gnome as described on the wiki: install the four X packages, then gnome and gnome-extra, add gdm into rc.conf reboot...

EDIT: I have aspire one d257 netbook so I used xf86-video-intel driver

Last edited by phobossion (2012-02-11 05:32:10)

phobossion

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Registered: 2012-02-10

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME won't start properly

This solved the problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127893