[NTLUG:Discuss] Gnome won't start...

[David Stanaway]

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 18:37, Fred James wrote:
> New machine:
> P4-2.0GHz with ATI Radeon 7500 (AGP) video card
> Red Hat 7.2
> 
> Installed binaries for XFree86 4.2.0, and can get a graphic login and 
> some sort of "desktop" - looks like X-Windows by itself (no Gnome).

Did you install the binaries from xfree86, or RPM's? 

If you installed them from xfree86, then they may have overwritten some
configuration files that start your gnome-session.

Maybe, if you try from the console:

xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session

.. and if that works, make a file: ~/.xinitrc like this:

#! /bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/gnome-session

--
David Stanaway
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