Gnome login screen

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dani_moxer

Hi guys I installed FreeBSD 8.1 and XOrg server and gnome2 but when I'm in gnome login screen I can't put any user, I can't do anything only I have this screen.

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Moreover, there are probably twenty similar topics about this.
 
DutchDaemon said:
Moreover, there are probably twenty similar topics about this.
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Which is probably a strong sign of the fact that the guide at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html is incomplete! I too came here for the exact same problem.

Once that green screen appears, there's nothing I can do except press the power button on my laptop, which would shut down the system. That's what following the instructions on the page I linked to leads to: I don't get to login at the console because some program (GDM???) takes control while I'm entering my credentials. After 3+ hours searching the web and rebooting, I still haven't found out a way to exit that impasse and edit the /etc/fstab file.

Apparently, the instructions haven't been synced after the automatic mounting has been removed. Can someone tell me what shortcut can get me back to a console? Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does no better. An indication on how to exit GDM (or whatever is the process running in the VM screenshot posted by dani_moxer) would be much appreciated. Thanks.
 
The magical shortcut: Ctrl+C. I pressed it repeatedly around the end of the boot process, when network interfaces were being set up. I could then login without a GUI program taking control. I changed the /etc/fstab file as indicated and at the next boot, my name appeared below the computer icon and I could enter my password.
 
You could also switch from X to a console with ctrl-alt-f2, log in as root there, and then make your changes.

The Handbook section is incomplete, and I opened a PR for it a while back: PR docs/154070. Possibly delayed due to the imminent release of 8.2 and 7.whatever.
 
I tend to think of it this way...

Handbook is fine, it is Gnome that is broken and needs updating to get back to how it used to work before all the bloat was added :p
 
kpedersen said:
I tend to think of it this way...

Handbook is fine, it is Gnome that is broken and needs updating to get back to how it used to work before all the bloat was added :p
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The handbook section is obviously about giving the instructions to follow to have Gnome as a desktop environment and, obviously again, it fails at that. Whether it's Gnome that's broken is irrelevant. Instead of changing what the project has control over, we should wait for the Gnome guys to acknowledge that their way of doing things needs a little tweaking to work under FreeBSD? Wow! That leaves me speechless.
Anyway, it's a very good thing that @wblock submitted a patch and that the patch has been applied just yesterday. Thanks Warren!
 
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