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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 09:02 -0800, Longman, Bill wrote: |
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> Rick, |
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> Sorry to preempt your thread, but you might want to see if you can get |
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> just an xterm running. Try this: |
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> /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/xterm |
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> You should then get an xterm with no window manager. From there, you can |
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> try to start Gnome. Just run "gnome-session" and it should start doing |
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> its thing. I noticed on my machine that I hadn't had dbus running, so it |
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> wouldn't start - it just hung there. Once I started dbus, all was well. |
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> Bill |
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Thanks Bill, That is perfect. |
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I can run xinit /usr/bin/xterm fine. I get a small command interface and |
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I type gnome-session. |
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Here is the error: |
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D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly ser up; failed to read mac hine |
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uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or |
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directory |
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I read the man page for dbus-uuidgen, but I'm not sure what I should |
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do... |
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On another note, the people at IBM told be I should update the bios, but |
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it seems there is only an "exe" file from them diskette for this. The |
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http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/license.do?filename=mobiles/1ruj35ud.exe two problems I have with that is that I have no windows computers or diskette drive! I have a CDR if there is any way to make a bootable CD to update the bios that would be great. Anybody know how to update the bios on a Thinkpad without a diskette drive or windows computer? |
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Thanks again |
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rick |
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