On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:23:38AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
> What is the trick to installing gnome? The dependencies seems to be broken:
> I have installed the gnome packages using dselect, and dselect has
> satisfied all dependencies. Nevertheless, when I try to start up gnome,
> my screen blinks a few times, and returns to the login prompt.

Check whether your shell initialization scripts work. Recently I screwed
up ~/.bash_profile by over-eager use of ssh-agent, and gdm exhibited
these symptoms.

Otherwise, see if there's anything interesting in /var/log/gdm/ or
/var/log/XFree86.*.log.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]


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