can't load gnome

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xeemo

I've typed in startx and all I get are a few outlines of windows, and a cursor. The background is really glitchy looking (Kind of like when you put in a dirty nes game. I already tried blowing on the freebsd cd though. That's not it.) The driver selected in the Xorg configuration seems to match up with my card (radeon x600 pci). The absolute first time I tried it there was still part of a ubuntu gnome desktop background there, which i think was stored in the graphics memory. The rest of the background was glitchy, just like the entire thing is now.

Is there some really obvious thing I haven't done yet? Or does this just sound like a weird problem? Any ideas?
 
ok, well turns out I thought it was installed when it wasn't. I have a similar problem now though. I have gnome set up to start automatically and when it logs in there's no login window. it's just the desktop wallpaper and a little icon in the corner of the screen with a person on it. also note: it was working fine when I got to it through the default windows manger.
 
I've now come across various problems with several reinstalls. Do I have to set it up a certain way to avoid gnome not logging on? Would it have something to do with setting up hal? (i eventually pressed a button that put the log in box on the screen, but the system just hung there for a while after i tried to enter gnome).
 
LateNiteTV said:
do you have
Code: 
gnome_enable="YES"
in rc.conf?
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yes i do. i have that, i tried setting up the host name which didn't help, and i made it so my username can mount removable media. i can't login to gnome though unless i do a fresh install and get into gnome by typing gdm from whatever that default windows manager is.

the default gnome background of a leaf is there, there's no login box, and there's an icon that's supposed to be inside a task bar at the bottom of the screen. on the off chance i can get the login box to show up, the system just hangs when i type in my username/password. right now i'm trying to figure out how i got it to show up earlier.
 
I tried reading more then once the following parts, but I'm not understanding:
xeemo said:
I have gnome set up to start automatically and when it logs in there's no login window.
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Who logs in?
Login window when "it" logs in?

xeemo said:
i can't login to gnome though unless i do a fresh install and get into gnome by typing gdm from whatever that default windows manager is.
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????
How are you starting gdm?
Did you rebooted or run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome start after modifying /etc/rc.conf?

Did you try looking in ~/.xsession-errors ot in /var/log/gdm/* for errors?
 
ale said:
I tried reading more then once the following parts, but I'm not understanding:
Who logs in?
Login window when "it" logs in?

????
How are you starting gdm?
Did you rebooted or run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome start after modifying /etc/rc.conf?

Did you try looking in ~/.xsession-errors ot in /var/log/gdm/* for errors?
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i was using the term "logs in" loosely. i just mean when it loads up. no one technically logs in yet. after modifying /etc/rc.conf this most recent time i rebooted and it went straight to a gnome wallpaper with no login screen(actually it flashed a glitched up version of that other windows manager before that, but i'm guessing that's normal.) i haven't checked for errors, but i will tomorrow as i've just about given up today.
 
errors from /var/log/gdm/ (there are also plenty of warnings) :
Code: 
Fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on display ':0.0'.
gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 2 (no such file or directory) on X server
i could totally put all the warnings here too if someone thought it would help(and someone tells me how). what directory would my other partition be under? i'd probably have to mount it first, right? could i do that from command prompt?
 
i don't know if you could have a non-technical problem like left-over settings in your home folder that's causing issues; could you try that first? either delete/move any hidden gnome settings in your home directory or just mv your whole home folder to a new name under /home, make a new empty one and chown it, then restart X+gdm fresh; (later restore your files)

Code: 
su
cd /home
mv dude dude1
mkdir dude
chown -R dude:dude dude

(assuming your username is dude)
 
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