Matthieu Herrb wrote: > David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > >> I have tried to install Gnome on two different machines running >> OpenBSD 4.2. >> The first machine ran Gnome fine under OpenBSD 4.1 (though there >> were other problems) >> >> One both machines - fresh installs gdm starts I can attempt to logon >> but I get a fatal error after logging on >> and a request to look in ~/.xsession for further information. >> > > This indicates that your session exited for some reason, probably an > error in your sessions startup script (.xsession or some thing else in > gnome case). > > >> after acknowledging X restarts, I can do a failsafe terminal login >> but nothing else. >> I have looked in ~/.xsession as well as the X/gdm logs in /var/log >> and the rest of the logs and can find no indications of a problem. >> >> A clue would be greatly appreciated. >> >> > > Please provide more precise informations, *exact* copies of the error > messages you see for instance, and more details on what files were > edited in your home directory. > > Also misc@ or ports@ mmailing lists are more appropriate for this kind > of questions. > I was able to trace things further. It failed trying to open gnome-session. Somehow despite the fact that I thought i had installed X and gnome, somethings were missed. Unfortunately that lead to a new problem. When trying to install/re-install gnome I am getting missing expat dependency issues all over the place. With a bit of force I have been able to get things loaded anyway - but can't get expat. Now it is bombing trying to load libexpat.so.9 - which is not anywhere on my system. I found some messages suggesting that there are libexpat issues with 4.2 though theey sugest I can get it from xbase42.tgz but I can not find it there.
Where can find libxpat and how can I persuade pkg_add that it is installed ?