GDM does not start, `startx` unrecognized

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noloader

Hi All,

I followed the instructions listed at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. After installing GNOME2, a message was printed to the console the GDM would start on reboot.

Afetr a reboot, gdm did not start. `startx` did not work either.

So I added the line `gdm_enabled="YES" to /etc/rc.conf (per one one the console messages that flew by during GNOME2 install). Reboot, and still no X/gdm.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jeff
 
Thanks Alie.

I don't recall if I installed X I'm not on the machine at the moment). But wouldn't X be a requirement for Gnome so that X would be installed if needed by the packaging system?

Jeff
 
noloader said:
But wouldn't X be a requirement for Gnome so that X would be installed if needed by the packaging system?
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X is not a ports dependency for some of the desktop environments. Guessing that's because in the past, both xfree86 and xorg were viable choices. Now there's really only xorg.
 
You can run gnome applications without having an X server on the same machine if you for example use X forwarding with ssh so an X server is not an absolute requirement for X applications, that's why it's not a dependency of gnome desktop.
 
noloader said:
So I added the line `gdm_enabled="YES" to /etc/rc.conf (per one one the console messages
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If you wrote that, it would be a typo. It should be 'enable', not 'enabled'.
 
Hi,
I assume issue has been resolved, but yes xorg is not dependency of gnome2 (a lot of xorg libs are but not xorg server itself)

Kirill R
 
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