Re: help gnome is not working on XDarwin

[Jim George <jg014a8950 blueyonder co uk>]

I don't think this is a Gnome issue.

Copy your .xinitrc file to .xinitrc.save (or something like that).
Comment out 'exec gnome-session' and add 'exec xterm' instead.

If it works you will get a very unfriendly (and unlovely) background
plus an xterm window.

However my suspicion is that you won't get this far 'cause you appear to
be unauthorised to run X on your server.  check for an entry like
'auth="$HOME/.Xauthority" in your xinit file (this should be in /etc/X11
or similar, they vary from distro to distro).

It could be your permissions for your home directory, who are you
running X as?

The next big problem is that X is unable, apparently, to use any of the
settings for resolution that you have.  I think you're going to need to
re-run XF86Setup to configure X-Windows again, unless XDarwin has a
setup utility that you can run (I use sax2 in SuSE which is excellent,
but of no use to you of course ;)).

Finally your 'locale' environment is wrong/not set.  Try 'echo $LANG'
from the command prompt you should see something like 'en_US' or 'en_GB'
or something that indicates the two-letter country code and the language
code used on your system.

Let us know what results you get with these steps covered off.

Jim

On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 10:17, Guillaume Dumoulin wrote:
> Hello
> 
> First let me say that I am a total Unix newbie.
> 
> I recently installed Gnome on my Macintosh (OSX 10.1.1 G4/400 832 Megs)
> 
> I had previously installed
> Xfree86complete-4.1-1.0.4
> XDarwin 1.0.4.1
> MacGimp 1.2.1
> OroborOSX 0.75a3
> 
> I got all the binaries/installers from each softwares' web sites except 
> for Xfree that I got from Apple and for Gnome that I installed using the 
> netinstaller located at http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/NetGNOME
> 
> When I launch XDarwin it looks like Gnome launches as well but the 
> welcome screen stays black for a while, then the advice appears, the 
> xterm window appears, and nothing else happens, no toolbar, nothing.
> 
> Here is the log of the console :
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [localhost:~] viz% startx -- -quartz
> 
> Running in parallel with Mac OS X Quartz window server.
> 
> This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any
> way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86 XFree86 Org and patches submitted
> to fixes XFree86 Org  Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions,
> please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository
> (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs)
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.1.99.1 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)
> Release Date: xx October 2001
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is
> newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
> reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
> Operating System: Darwin
> Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
> Display mode: Rootless Quartz
> Screen 0 added: 1280x1003 @ (0,21)
> Screen 1 added: 1024x768 @ (1280,0)
> Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).
> Screen 1 placed at X11 coordinate (1280,-21).
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost:/tmp/.ICE-unix/873
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
> Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
> Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
> Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
> Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.
> Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal.
> WARNING: sound not availableWARNING: sound not availableWARNING: sound 
> not availableWARNING: sound not availableWARNING: sound not 
> availableWARNING: sound not availableWARNING: sound not 
> availableWARNING: sound not availableWARNING: sound not 
> availableWARNING: sound not availablezsh: command not found: 
> xscreensaver-command
> zsh: command not found: xscreensaver
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C librarycat: 
> /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 
> cat: /Users/viz/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server 
> shutdown).
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 879, errno = 0
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 907, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 937, errno = 0
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 909, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 903, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 905, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 923, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 929, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 919, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 921, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 933, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 931, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 927, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 925, errno = 0
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 935, errno = 0
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
> xinit: connection to X server lost.
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down Quitting XDarwin...
> ........
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Sorry its a bit long :-)
> 
> Here is the content of my .xinitrc file :
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> # $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $
> 
> userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
> usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
> sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
> sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
> 
> # merge in defaults and keymaps
> 
> if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
> xrdb -merge $sysresources
> fi
> 
> if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
> xmodmap $sysmodmap
> fi
> 
> if [ -f $userresources ]; then
> xrdb -merge $userresources
> fi
> 
> if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
> xmodmap $usermodmap
> fi
> 
> # start some nice programs
> 
> exec gnome-session
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Now I dont know what to do...
> Where are all the Gnome files located ?
> How can I remove Gnome before I reinstall it ?
> I dont find any information about that on the Gnome.org website ...
> 
> Or is there something else I need to do ?
> 
> Thanx for your help.
> 
>