How can I start GNOME from the text based prompt.

byvis · May 16, 2009, 11:19am

Hello,

GNOME starts automatically when I start opensuse 11.1.
When I logoff, i went to the text based prompt an I cannot login to GNOME again. I must change to root and the reboot.:sarcastic:
Please do not reply “read man”. Please give me the command to start GNOME with normal user rights or start the screen to choose another user.

Greetings

knurpht · May 16, 2009, 1:39pm

That is not what this is about. You should be returned to the graphic login screen. From what it looks like, your X server dies when loging out.
You are asking how to restart the desktop. Finding a way to do this is not a solution, it’s a way to work on with something broken. Logging in as a user in the console and then issuing the command ‘startx’ should do the job for what you ask, but what you realy want is the strange behaviour to be replaced by the normal, decent behaviour.
Can you please post the content of /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and /etx/X11/xorg.conf ? That way we can see, how your GNOME starts and stops. Somehow, somehwere the misbehaviour should be configured.

byvis · May 16, 2009, 3:13pm

Sorry, but I found the solution myself

I can reach the text based screen with ALT+N.
I must wait more seconds/minutes :shame: then the screen changes from text based to the graphic based login with all the users.
Im confused, sometimes I reach the text based screen directly when I logout. I think it is not necessary to post the scripts.

greatings

byvis · May 16, 2009, 3:44pm

Waiting does not work always. When I type gnome at the prompt I get the error “Display can not open”. StartX works only with root and the I get KDE, I want GNOME. Here are the scripts.

Path: Desktop/Display manager

Description: settings to generate a proper displaymanager config

Type: string(kdm,kdm3,kdm4,xdm,gdm,wdm,console)

Default: “”

Here you can set the default Display manager (kdm/xdm/gdm/wdm/console).

all changes in this file require a restart of the displaymanager

DISPLAYMANAGER=“kdm4”

Type: yesno

Default: no

Allow remote access (XDMCP) to your display manager (xdm/kdm/gdm). Please note

that a modified kdm or xdm configuration, e.g. by KDE control center

will not be changed. For gdm, values will be updated after change.

XDMCP service should run only on trusted networks and you have to disable

firewall for interfaces, where you want to provide this service.

DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS=“no”

Type: yesno

Default: no

Allow remote access of the user root to your display manager. Note

that root can never login if DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN is “auto” and

System/Security/Permissions/PERMISSION_SECURITY is “paranoid”

DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE=“no”

Type: yesno

Default: yes

Let the displaymanager start a local Xserver.

Set to “no” for remote-access only.

Set to “no” on architectures without any Xserver (e.g. s390/s390x).

DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER=“yes”

Type: yesno

Default: no

TCP port 6000 of Xserver. When set to “no” (default) Xserver is

started with “-nolisten tcp”. Only set this to “yes” if you really

need to. Remote X service should run only on trusted networks and

you have to disable firewall for interfaces, where you want to

provide this service. Use ssh X11 port forwarding whenever possible.

DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN=“no”

Type: string

Default:

Define the user whom should get logged in without request. If string

is empty, display standard login dialog.

DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=""

Type: yesno

Default: no

Allow all users to login without password, but ask for the user, if

DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN is empty.

DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN=“no”

Type: yesno

Default: no

Display a combobox for Active Directory domains.

DISPLAYMANAGER_AD_INTEGRATION=“no”

Type: list(root,all,none,auto)

Default: auto

Determine who will be able to shutdown or reboot the system in kdm

and gdm. Valid values are: “root” (only root can shutdown), “all”

(everybody can shutdown), “none” (nobody can shutdown from

displaymanager), “auto” (follow

System/Security/Permissions/PERMISSION_SECURITY to decide: "easy

local" is equal to “all”, everything else is equal to “root”). Note

that remote user can never shutdown in GDM.

DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN=“all”

Type: string

Default: “”

Mode to configure on output devices by default

(RANDR 1.2 compatible drivers only).

If set to “auto”, DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto is used on laptops, and

the empty string on workstations.

The output is not explicitly enabled (read: disabled) if set to an empty

string.

If the variable contains a fully configured modeline (see default of

DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto), the mode is defined and set.

If the variable contains a mode name only, the mode has to be defined

already.

If a monitor is attached during Xstartup, or when invoking “xrandr --auto”

during runtime, the output is correctly configured and a mode is

automatically selected if none has been used so far.

Variables are checked according to their extension for

VGA DVI_I DVI_D DVI_A Composite S_Video Component LFP Proprietary

DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_VGA=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_I=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_D=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_A=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Compsite=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_S_Video=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Component=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_LFP=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Proprietary=""

Type: string

Default: “1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync”

Mode to use for laptops for DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_* on laptops only,

when the according variable is set to “auto”.

(RANDR 1.2 compatible drivers only).

DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto=“1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync”

Path: Desktop/Display manager

Description: settings to generate a proper displaymanager config

Config: kdm3

Type: string

Default:

space separated list of users for which icons should be shown in KDM

if empty, then take system defaults

KDM_USERS=""

Type: string

Default:

Special greeting words in kdm

KDM_GREETSTRING=""

Type: string

Default:

Defines extra Server Arguments given to the kdm display manager when

starting a local display. Useful to override e.g. the -dpi setting.

DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_LOCALARGS=""

Type: string

Default: SUSE

Define the theme to be used by kdm. If empty, the traditional login

window is used (which lacks some features)

DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME=“SUSE”

Type: string(Xorg)

Path: Desktop/Display manager

Default: “Xorg”

DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=“Xorg”

/…/

SaX generated X11 config file

Created on: 2009-05-15T20:52:13+0200.

Version: 8.1

Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005

Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>

Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

Section “Files”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/local”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/URW”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/PEX”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/xtest”
FontPath “/opt/kde3/share/fonts”
InputDevices “/dev/gpmdata”
InputDevices “/dev/input/mice”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “on”
Option “ZapWarning” “on”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “freetype”
Load “dbe”
Load “dri”
Load “glx”
Load “extmod”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “kbd”
Identifier “Keyboard[0]”
Option “Protocol” “Standard”
Option “XkbLayout” “de”
Option “XkbModel” “microsoftpro”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86”
Option “XkbVariant” “nodeadkeys”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Driver “vmmouse”
Identifier “Mouse[1]”
Option “Buttons” “5”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “InputFashion” “Mouse”
Option “Name” “VMware Pointer”
Option “Protocol” “explorerps/2”
Option “Vendor” “Sysp”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
DisplaySize 366 229
HorizSync 31-48
Identifier “Monitor[0]”
ModelName “1024X768@60HZ”
Option “PreferredMode” “1024x768”
VendorName “–> VESA”
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes[0]”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1024x768” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1024x768” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1024x768” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1024x768” “1024x600” “800x600” “768x576” “640x480”
EndSubSection
Device “Device[0]”
Identifier “Screen[0]”
Monitor “Monitor[0]”
EndSection

Section “Device”
BoardName “VMWARE0405”
Driver “vmware”
Identifier “Device[0]”
Screen 0
VendorName “VMWare Inc”
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
Option “Clone” “off”
Option “Xinerama” “off”
Screen “Screen[0]”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Group “video”
Mode 0660
EndSection

Section “Extensions”
EndSection

byvis · May 16, 2009, 3:59pm

@Knurpht, I cannot edit my post. thank you for you help.

Greetings

user · May 16, 2009, 4:43pm

> Im confused, sometimes I reach the text based screen directly when I
> logout.

AH, yes it is not usual to click on change user and immediately be
shown the log in screen…

and, one time it might take only a few seconds and then the next time
longer, sometimes much longer…i think the difference depends on
what all is going on that has to be shut down in an orderly fashion…

patience IS a virtue…even with modern computers…

–
somebody_else