OK, as usual, I don't have a solution to your (current) problem, but I was experiencing the original Gnome/GDM problem you had, and it was easily fixed. For some reason, after installing gnome-session and gdm from packages, /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession was not executable, but gdm appears to expect it to be and throws an error. "chmod +x /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession" cleared up my problems. Presumably this is a bug in the gdm package, but it's too easily fixed ad hoc for me to actually look at where the problem originates.
HTH, Marti On Oct 24, 2007 11:25 PM, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ? > > -- Systems Programmer, Principal Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
