Gnome on FreeBSD in VMWare . . .

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misteralexander

Yesterday, I spent 14-hours learning how to install and configure FreeBSD. I am installing & running it through VMWare Workstation 7.1.2. I got fairly far & things went as well as you could expect for a day-one beginner. The install went fine, xorg installed and configured with ease, I got gdm inserted into /etc/rc.conf just fine . . . now I'm at the gdm login window

.

I'm stumped. What do I do now?

There is no login area. No username, no password . . . I'm hopelessly stumped.

I came this far, and now I'm faced with a 100-foot wall, with no ladder.

Please help.

-Alex.
 
Do you have configure procfs in the system?
you have to put in /etc/fstab.
Code: 
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
And mount procfs
Code: 
mount proc
or reboot.
If you have only root for user that can be your problem too.
 
I have the exact same problem...

My question is now: "How will I be able to edit the fstab, if I can't log on?"
Or in other words, can I stop gnome from or do I have to install everything again? I have added users, so it might not be a root problem...

I had 8.0 RC3 before and I'm pretty sure I didn't do any fstab then...
 
tab2tab said:
My question is now: "How will I be able to edit the fstab, if I cant log on?"
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Boot to single user mode. After pressing enter for a shell:
Code: 
# fsck -y
# mount -u /
# mount -a -t ufs
# swapon -a

Now you can edit /etc/fstab. When you are done just exit or reboot.
 
Good that I found this page, I was going nuts, hope this is fixed in 8.2, same issue still present in 8.1. Google was my friend.
 
cucu007 said:
Good that I found this page, I was going nuts, hope this is fixed in 8.2, same issue still present in 8.1. Google was my friend.
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There's nothing to fix. It's a configuration issue you yourself need to do.
 
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