gnome does not start
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hello guys,
since the last 2 days, i have't had a window manager working. i had lost
gnome when i installed some msttcorefonts. after a couple of days of
posting on mailing lists and trying everything i could, i finally
removed everything xfree-, gnome-, etc and started afresh. effectively,
i had the /etc/X11 dir almost empty. i know a lot of that is linked to
in /usr/X11R6/libs but not sure how much. what i want to say is, i did
not empty the latter. but i purged all x-related packages from dselect
in order to start off afresh. to continue, i still have the same problem
i had before.
anwyays now, i have gnome2.2 (the woody backport created by James
Strandboge). i have xfree86 4.2.1 backport for woody, again from
people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386.
1. i have a desktop manager (xdm) that starts up ok.
2. i enter my login/passwd
3. gnome2 starts, i see gnome2 try to start but it immediately aborts
and comes back to xdm.
i have been seeing this same behavior right since the time the problem
started. having done what all i did, i think the problem is neither with
X nor with gnome2. its something else.
can someone tell me where to check next? or if i need to supply
something more, please ask. mail me directly if you wish coz i am going
to see the end of this tonight
thanks
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