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Old 7th May 2008
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Your post is somewhat cryptic.
When you say
When I try to open gnome from CLI using "gnome-session"
did you typed gnome-session on the CLI
or did you echo "exec gnome-session" > .xinitrc
then
startx
?????

Also, IIRC, while GNOME works perfectly well on OpenBSD, the GNOME implementation was said to have been updated (undeadly.org) for XFCE4 to work.

As the OpenBSD implementation of GNOME does not follows the pure GNOME installation with *all* possibly (even rarely) needed dependencies a la FreeBSD, I doubt pkg_add 'ing only *desktop and *session would give you a full working environment.
AFAIK, on OpenBSD, there is no way to install a "Gnome-light" environment with a meta-package.

If you want GNOME, I suggest you install it via the "source", that is
cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome && make install
you can set your mk.conf to preferably use packages when available and end up installing from packages only.
The ports/packages infrastructure of OpenBSD is second to none for installing and upgrading applications. Need to read some man pages.
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