David H. Lynch Jr. 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 ?
It's very clearly stated.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#libexpat
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/<your arch here>/
Aaron
