[NCLUG] debian on pms

[dann frazier]

look at ~/.gnome-errors

i usually do the following when this happens on a freshly installed box:
  apt-get install xfonts-base xfs gnome-session gnome-core
  /etc/init.d/xfs restart


On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:06:36PM -0700, Daniel Miles wrote:
> 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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