After make install clean gnome is not starting.

Alden Louis-Pierre alden.pierre at verizon.net
Mon Sep 22 19:29:25 PDT 2003


John McAree wrote:

 >Hi,
 >
 >On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:03, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote:
 >
 >>I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 and I decide to install gnome 2.4 from the ports
 >>collection.  I've followed the instructions that was provided.
 >>
 >># echo WITH_FAM= yes >> /etc/make.conf
 >
 ><snip>
 >
 >>I'm presented with the generic window of xfree.  I checked in my cd ~
 >>directory and I noticed I have no .gnome files.  Would someone be kind
 >>enough to point me to the right direction/document.  I'm currently using
 >>www.freebsd.org/gnome as my source of reference.
 >
 >
 >Try 'echo /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session > ~/.xinitrc', then 'startx'
 >again. That should get you running Gnome.
 >
 >Regards,
 >
 >John.
 >
 >
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Excellent, it worked perfectly!!!  :o)

Thank You
Alden Louis-Pierre




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