gnome won't start

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 18 May 2004 06:45:14 +0000, Khong SF <khongs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've been using FreeBSD 4.7-stable on a PIII box for a while.
> I tried  for weeks to get the gnome1.4 desktop running but to no 
> prevails.

We don't have GNOME1 in the ports tree, so we don't support it anymore. We 
only have GNOME2.

> The problems i encountered were:
>
> 1) when gnome starts, it pop up a diaglog box saying
>     " unable to find host adress for.
>       please check the file /etc/hosts ...... blah blah blah"
>      Then it gave me choices to continue/ try again,
>      if i click try again, the diaglog box appear again & if i click 
> continue, the blank desktop just freezed
>
> 2)  My  /etc/hosts file is OK,  it looks like below:
>      ::1		localhost localhost.my.domain
>      127.0.0.1 	localhost localhost.my.domain

What about your hostname? That hostname should be replace to 
localhost.my.domain.

> 3) my X11 & windowmaker (Enlightenment) start just  fine, but every time 
> when i exit the
>     windowmaker, the same situation like problem 1) reappear.
>
> 4) the Xserver-error file in my home dir sounds like this:
>     Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>     Xlib: No protocol specified
>     Gtk-warning **: cannot open display: :0
>     SESSION_MANAGER=local/:tmp/.ICE-unix/274
>
> 5) do i need Openssh in order to run X11 &/ gnome1.4 ?
>     just what's wrong with my gnome desktop ?

No.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Many thanks for those who can help.
>
>
> regards,
> winter.


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