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, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]