installing gnome from scratch..

[Justin Whelan <justinwhelan tiscali co uk>]

hi,

i am trying to build gnome into rpm files for the new version of Yoper 
operating system but have hit a few problems and wondered if anyone has the 
answers. 

After building most of the packages I installed the rpms. Gnome appeared on 
the login screen as an option which I was pleased about. I ran my x windows 
with the gnome option as a normal user and was greeted with an error message 
indicating "Your configuration files are currently in use. Please continue 
without them or try again" (or words to that effect). I continued without 
them but my x windows restarted. This happens everytime I log in as a normal 
user. 

I then attempted to login as a superuser, and everything appeared to be 
succesful. However, whenever I selected the menu bars at the top of the 
screen nothing happened. Its as if the menu bar with the gnome footprint etc 
on is simply a picture with no clickable area what-so-ever. Has anyone came 
accross this before. 

I am assuming the menu is orgranised in gnome-menus, and I did have a slight 
conflict with kdelibs when trying the install the gnome menus package. The 
conflicting file was /etc/xdm/applications.menu but I replaced the file with 
the gnome one and hoped this would work.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatfully received.

Justin Whelan