thank you. Actually after trying various things i did that, and it stopped complaining(i am a little concerned about changing file permissions until i am very sure), and i could logon using gnome-desktop. but there were not many utilities/toys in gnome i guess (i checked the list of 'gnome' pkgs available on openbsd.org and found i have installed all).
so i have now uninstalled complete gnome and firefox packages. Also one thing to note is i installed firefox before gnome. it shares some lib with gnome. My future approach would be a little more cautious and i will install 1)base-GUI-environment and then 2)any other GUI-based app. even though it seems having no impact and fvwm is already there with base X installation! -BG ________________________________ ~~Kalyan-mastu~~ ----- Original Message ---- From: Genadijus Paleckis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: badeguruji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 1:56:50 AM Subject: Re: why am i only able to run Gnome in safe mode? (getting error) take a look at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg50994.html badeguruji wrote: > Hello, > > Please help OR guide to me to any resource which describes installing gnome in clean clear steps on a new openBSD installation. (I am ready to uninstall and reinstall gnome if needed) > > i tried to install gnome in below order: > gnome-desktop-2.18.2p0: > gnome-session-2.18.2p0 > gdm-2.18.2 > > > I am only able to run gnome is safe mode. > > This post has the exact issue i am facing (only error in the log file is little different, which is shown below) > http://www.webservertalk.com/message1134770.html > --as per the solution in the above post user changed permissions on his home dir. i am logging in as root. should i change my root permissions? currently they are: > > drwx------ 14 root wheel 1024 Nov 7 07:01 root > > > > The errors in the log file: > > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Nov 7 05:46:56 2007 > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > New driver is "i810" > (==) Using default built-in configuration (55 lines) > (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. > FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. > # > > > I am also getting below error on message log: > Nov 7 00:12:46 ironhost gdm[12200]: gdm_slave_exec_script: Failed starting: /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default > > > please advice. > > thank you. > BG > > ________________________________ > ~~Kalyan-mastu~~
