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Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gnome black screen
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:23:37
Message-Id: 1172254922.6119.16.camel@bong.greenbuzz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-laptop] Gnome black screen by "Longman
1 On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 09:02 -0800, Longman, Bill wrote:
2 > Rick,
3 >
4 > Sorry to preempt your thread, but you might want to see if you can get
5 > just an xterm running. Try this:
6 >
7 > /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/xterm
8 >
9 > You should then get an xterm with no window manager. From there, you can
10 > try to start Gnome. Just run "gnome-session" and it should start doing
11 > its thing. I noticed on my machine that I hadn't had dbus running, so it
12 > wouldn't start - it just hung there. Once I started dbus, all was well.
13 >
14 > Bill
15
16 Thanks Bill, That is perfect.
17
18 I can run xinit /usr/bin/xterm fine. I get a small command interface and
19 I type gnome-session.
20
21 Here is the error:
22
23 D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly ser up; failed to read mac hine
24 uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or
25 directory
26
27 I read the man page for dbus-uuidgen, but I'm not sure what I should
28 do...
29
30 On another note, the people at IBM told be I should update the bios, but
31 it seems there is only an "exe" file from them diskette for this. The
32 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?
33
34 Thanks again
35 rick
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