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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:01:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu97hwf9208.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46d08bd30909031335k13399de4ja47e681f2f966760@mail.gmail.com> (Nick Khamis's message of "Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:28 -0400")

At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:28 -0400 Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:

> When I do a:
>
> rc-update add xdm default
>
> Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought
> I know its the right username password.

Not sure what you mean by "gentoo" in the last sentence.  Perhaps you
meant "gnome".  In that case the problem might be that you didn't set
gnome as your xsession in
/etc/rc.conf  (or /etc/conf.d/xdm).

allan



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03 20:25 [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 20:29 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-09-03 20:31   ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 20:31     ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 20:35       ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:01         ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2009-09-03 21:05           ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:05           ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:03         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-03 21:19           ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 23:46             ` Allan Gottlieb

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