few problems?

Zilvinas · 2007-10-08 21:58:53

Hi there,

I am newbie and I installed Arch linux just today, now I am sitting here still trying to configure all the stuff for about 5 hours.

I have installed gnome and put it as a deamon so it starts when booted.. And there is problem - when I login with user I've created it says "System has no xclients file, so starting a failsafe xterm session". But now I think I figured out that I did not install gnome correctly, that might be the problem. I only used pacman -S gnome-extra, but I did not run pacman -S gnome before that. I would run pacman -S gnome, but the problem is that on gnome logon screen I can not login as root, that means I can't install anything. I tried to edit a /etc/rc.conf file on my other user that I've created, but it says it does not have a permission to write the file (in nano).

How do I login as root? Is there a way to do that? gnome won't let me login as root, and gnome is started on boot. I really don't want to reinstall Arch, because I spent so much hours on that.

Thanks for any help!

Misfit138 · 2007-10-08 22:06:23

Zilvinas wrote:

Hi there,
I am newbie and I installed Arch linux just today, now I am sitting here still trying to configure all the stuff for about 5 hours.
I have installed gnome and put it as a deamon so it starts when booted.. And there is problem - when I login with user I've created it says "System has no xclients file, so starting a failsafe xterm session". But now I think I figured out that I did not install gnome correctly, that might be the problem. I only used pacman -S gnome-extra, but I did not run pacman -S gnome before that. I would run pacman -S gnome, but the problem is that on gnome logon screen I can not login as root, that means I can't install anything. I tried to edit a /etc/rc.conf file on my other user that I've created, but it says it does not have a permission to write the file (in nano).
How do I login as root? Is there a way to do that? gnome won't let me login as root, and gnome is started on boot. I really don't want to reinstall Arch, because I spent so much hours on that.

Thanks for any help!

Installing gnome-extra only installs, well, extra stuff. You have not installed gnome. You must do pacman -S gnome.

There is really no need to login to Gnome as root. It is bad practice. Login as normal user and switch to root in a terminal, or use sudo.
Open a terminal in Gnome, and su to root, then install whatever you need.

Zilvinas · 2007-10-08 22:48:25

Thanks! I managed to install the gnome using su root.

I rebooted my PC and when I login to gnome with my user, I still get the message saying "System has no Xclients file, so starting failsafe xterm session. Windows will have focus only if mouse pointer is above them. To get out of this mode type 'exit' in the window.

And after I click OK, I only get a screen with a window - shell terminal (or how you call it), and all I can do is type commands in it. Is there something i've done wrong?

Misfit138 · 2007-10-08 22:58:12

Sounds like you need to choose the correct session? I don't have much experience with Gnome, so someone else will no doubt know.

hussam · 2007-10-08 23:26:01

Make sure you have xorg-xinit installed. 'pacman -Sy xorg-xinit'

Last edited by hussam (2007-10-08 23:26:16)

Rumor · 2007-10-09 00:06:35

Have you installed the gnome package yet? If you press ctrl-alt-f2 you'll be taken to a command prompt login. You can login as root, pacman -S gnome and install the gnome base packages. restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace) or reboot and you should be able to login correctly.

hussam · 2007-10-09 00:33:43

Another thing, under gdm, you need to choose the correct session which is 'gnome' and not 'xclient'

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