Gnome does not want to start

[Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@ywesee.com>]

Hi List

I am a Newbie to Gnome and Debian.

I installed everyting according to:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg04019.html
http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html

Now when I do:
gnome-session

I get:
(gnome-session:463): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

When I do:
xterm & gnome-session

I get:
[1] 466
xterm Xt error: Can't open display:

(gnome-session:467): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
[1]+  Exit 1                  xterm


Thanks for any help and hints.

Zeno