gnome won't start. HELP PLEASE!

[Sean Cavanaugh]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> gnome at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Harry Veltman
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 8:59 AM
> To: freebsd-gnome at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: gnome won't start. HELP PLEASE!
> 
> I installed FreeBSD-9.0-amd64-dvd1.iso, including every package on the
DVD,
> which includes GNOME and FIREFOX, but when I start FreeBSD and login, all
I
> get is a command line starting with #.  Why doesn't the GUI open?
> 

Short answer, because you never told it to. FreeBSD is the operating system.
Just because you have GNOME installed, you have not explicitly told it to
launch it upon startup.

To correct it, please read
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome