cannot get the gnome working by following the steps written wiki/GNOME

benzwt chin benzwt at gmail.com
Sun May 30 02:28:50 PDT 2010


On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:13 PM, benzwt chin <benzwt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I cannot get the gnome working by following the steps written in wiki/GNOME
>
> To debug the problem I ran the commands which written in
> ~/.xinitrc.d/90-gnome.sh line by line in the xterm.
>
> sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
> launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
>
> prompt> metacity
> Window manager warning: Locale not understood by C library,
> internationalization will not work
> (metacity:1933): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
>        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
> Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager
>
>
> prompt> quartz-wm
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libXinerama.1.dylib
>  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/quartz-wm
>  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
>        /opt/local/lib/libXinerama.1.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
> Trace/BPT trap

I did
file opt/local/bin/quartz-wm
it is a ppc and i386 binary, but I'm using x86_64. It seems that I
should rather use metacity.
However, the problem of starting the metacity still remain.


>
>
> prompt> dbus
> Failed to start message bus: launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure:
> Operation not permitted
> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
>
>
> prompt> gnome-session
> Failed to start message bus: launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure:
> Operation not permitted
> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
>
>
> Please, help me out.
>
> Best regards,
> benzwt
>


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