Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:00:21 +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to
> the next problem. Gnome won't start.
>
> I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I
> enter a user id and password. Pressing OK would then normally take me to
> the Gnome desktop for that user. <slight grumble> the greeter looks a
> bit different now, resizing itself between the user id and password
> entry, which is slightly irritating. I thought I remembered having two
> separate entry fields for id and password, but I could be mistaken
> </slight grumble>.
>
> What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the
> greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in
> ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error
> which seems to be the root of the problem: the script
> /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome calls for the execution of another script
> /usr/bin/gnome-session, which is sadly missing from my system. Despite
> looking through the update instructions, I found no mention of this
> script or where it comes from. Anyone have any ideas?
Maybe you should install or reinstall the meta-package gnome. It depends
on everything necessary to start gnome.
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