[NCLUG] debian on pms

[Daniel Miles]

apt-get install gnome-session

I think that should do the trick

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:09:13 -0800 (PST)
Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet <ADDRESS_REMOVED_BY_REQUEST> wrote:

> hi!
> 
> now I can log into debian, but
> I cannot do much.
> After the Welcome to Gnome screen, 
> i get a blank background
> The buttons all work, but if i select 
> a shell such as bash or tcsh, 
> it never appears.
> There's no icons at the bottom
> or anything of much use.
> Some of the menu items 'work' in the
> sense that a little dialog box comes
> up, but again, no graphical application
> will appear on the screen.
> I switched to xsession and got the
> xterm attached to my mouse, but as 
> soon as I click it to put it somewhere,
> it then disappears.
> 
> This has to be a result from my playing
> with cfdisk adding another partition.
> It is related to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, which is set
> as  rw_ r_ _ _ _ _ with root root uid/grp
> which is what it's supposed to be, eh?
> and shadow is:
> 
> 
> error message in /home/sugar on .gnome_error_r
> GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to : Permission denied.
> 
> in /etc i keep getting funny crap like
> shadow.lock
> passwd.lock
> passwd-
> shadow-
> .pwd.lock
> 
> whether i'm loggin in or trying to add another user i.e.
> useradd .....
> 
> help, 
> thanks
> -me
> 
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