gdm doesn't work - or how to change .dtprofile to start gnome?

[Tobias Giesen]

Hello,

I previously had GNOME 1.2 but then I installed 1.4 from Ximian and now all I get upon reboot is a raw XServer desktop background. The gdm login manager is configured to start but it doesn't appear. Any ideas how to make it?

Alternatively, how can I configure dtlogin to start the GNOME environment?

Thanks.
Tobias Giesen
HP Visualize C200
HP-UX 11i (11.11)

[Alex Glennie]

First off did you remove ALL remnanats of gnome 1.2 and I mean ALL including those directories such as / var/opt/gnome , /etc/opt/gnome and the hidden ones in $HOME/ too ? If not I'd do so and then clean install gnome 1.4 .

Then check the file = /etc/rc.config.d/desktop

it should read :

DESKTOP=GNOME

If this all checks out : try a to kill the Xserver ,
ps -ef | grep gdm : kill any processes listed and then run :

/opt/gnome/bin/gdm on the command line ?

[Tobias Giesen]

Hello,

thanks so much for the answer. Yes my install was 100% clean and I have changed the desktop file correctly. It's good to know the shortcut to kill the XServer ;=)

GNOME applications do work when started from CDE.

But even when CDE is disabled and all CDE and gdm processes are stopped, starting the gdm from command line using /opt/gnome/bin/gdm results only in the default XServer desktop without anything else being loaded. GDM just doesn't appear, nor does it issue any warnings.

Anything else I could check?

Cheers,
Tobias

PS assigning forum points doesn't work with Netscape 6 / HPUX.

[Alex Glennie]

Niether do correct answers ;)

OK as a fudge try this :

http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/support.html#faq-a12

If that fails perhaps we are having errors being reported somewhere ? I'm new to problems with gnome but I'd suggest looking in Xerrors just in case & also try /var/opt/gnome/gdm/*logs ?

[Tobias Giesen]

Hello Alex,

thanks again, I think this solution is good enough!

Cheers,
Tobias