Starting Gnome problem

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Sun, 2 May 2004, [iso-8859-1] Stephen Liu wrote:

> Hi Uli,
>
> Tks for your advice.
>
> > > Each time login either as root or as user to start
> > > GNOME.  It returns to GUI login.  Starting KDE has
> > no
> > > problem.
> > I had this problem some weeks ago.
> > Try to turn off gdm by
> > # /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh stop
> > and start your gnome-session manually.
> > I could see error messages about some missing gnome
> > libs then.
> >
> > If this is the case on your system, too, you will
> > know something
> > went wrong with your gnome upgrade. You can fix it
> > yourself or
> > ask for advice on freebsd-gnome list
>
> Following your advice to start 'gnome-session'.
>
> Following warning popup;
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Share object "libORBit-2.so.0"
> not found
This one should be present in /usr/local/lib .

But, as I have to admit, I am no gnome expert. Try their mailing
list. I am quite sure your upgrade didn't work properly.
By the way: there also might be error messages on the console
from which you started X.

Uli.

>
> Have you had any glue.  TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
>
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