Re: Gnome

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Paul Akkermans wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>  
> I have installed Gnome through apt-get install gdm. After doing this 
> and after rebooting my debian system I get the following message:
>  
> I cannot start the x server (your graphical interface) It is likely 
> that it is not set up correctly Would you like to view the x server 
> output to diagnose the problem? (Choises Yes and No). When I press Yes 
> the form which should contain the diagnose is completely empty. The 
> next message (when I press Ok in the empty diagnose form) I get is: I 
> will diable this X server for now. Restart GDM when it is configured 
> correctly. Does anybody know what is wrong and how I can solve this 
> problem?
>  
> Thanks in advance

gdm is not Gnome; it's only Gnome's GUIfied login manager. I don't think 
its dependencies pull in a full Gnome setup. You might try "apt-get 
install gnome". You might also need to "apt-get install x-window-system".

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Kent