Booting in to Gnome

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crito

Little bit of a FreeBSD newb. I am using 9.0 with fluxbox, today I tried installing gdm and Gnome. Followed all the official steps, and gdm does come up, but does nothing, won't boot into the desktop. On reboot I see error message

Code: 
gnome-keyring not found.

Thought I could boot into 'single user mode' but bootup stalls at:

Code: 
uhid0: <USB Keyboard> on usbus0

Hit 'Enter' and get:

Code: 
Cannot read termcap database
using dumb terminal settings.
I need to figure out how to boot to a shell so I can comment out
Code: 
gdm_enable="YES"
in rc.conf, or install the gnome-keyring, or whatever. Or if anyone has a workaround that will work too.

Thanks for help
m
 
proc is listed in my fstab file, wrote that during during initial install.

I do get:

Code: 
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh

around 8 lines up from the freeze but boot process doesn't stop there, justs busts right on through until it hits the Logitech USB receiver (or the wired keyboard if the mouse receiver isn't plugged in) and then justs stops there. RETURN puts me at a dumb terminal. Other than that I don't see where I'm getting a shell prompt.

I do remember having a similar problem once in Linux land, and I resolved it, just don't remember how I did it. Seems though that it as an F4 or F5 or whatever during boot that got me to a workable shell. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, thanks for the help wblock

Update:

Playing around with it a little bit, moved the wired keyboard to a different USB port. Now when I boot I do get:

Code: 
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh

prompt, but, still, when I hit RETURN or /bin/sh I get

Code: 
Cannot read termcap database;
using dumb terminal settings

Still messing with it.
 
The USB messages are async, they can appear before or after the single-user prompt. It's confusing, but just ignore them. Even if they show up after the prompt, the system is still waiting for you to press enter.
 
Thanks wblock, but as I mentioned above hitting the enter key gives me the termcap error and sends me to a dumb terminal. Nothing I can do with this, initiate vi for instance.

What am I missing here?

Ahhh never mind.

[cmd=]mount -a[/cmd]
[CMD=]vi /etc/rc.conf[/CMD]
 
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