Re: Gnome does not want to start

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com>]

it doesn't sound like you're actually running XFree86 - gnome-session
doesn't start X on it's own.

Best bet is to either use GDM, or if you want to login to a console, put
this in your ~/.xinitrc :

#!/bin/sh
gnome-session


Then set it executable (chmod +x ~/.xinitrc) and then type startx to
start XFree86 (which will run the commands in ~/.xinitrc, and thus start
GNOME).

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 11:45, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> 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