Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:52:13 -0500 From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Post mortum on Gnome2 problem Message-ID: <3E40441D.2070803@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1044394751.323.57.camel@gyros> References: <3E3EDEE3.809@twcny.rr.com> <1044323279.71367.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3E401EE6.8060604@twcny.rr.com> <1044394751.323.57.camel@gyros>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:13, Tom Parquette wrote: > > >>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:28, Tom Parquette wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi! >>>>I had a problem 3 weeks ago where my Gnome2 desktop disappeared and took >>>>email and most of my stuff with it. I have finished rebuilding and I'm >>>>back on the air. >>>> >>>>Below is the email I tried to send to the questions list to see if >>>>someone could help me. It was thrown back at me. I guess something >>>>thought I was spam. >>>> >>>>Anyway, I would like to see if anybody has any ideas on what might have >>>>caused this. >>>>The configuration is NOT running on any machine but I was able to tar >>>>the filesystems and ftp them to my wife's window$ machine before I was >>>>forced to reinstall. >>>> >>>>Has anybody seen anything like this? >>>>Even though an answer would not help at this point, if there is >>>>something I did that could cause the problem again, I'll call this a >>>>learning experience and not do it again. >>>>TIA for any help. >>>> >>>>Here is the email that was refused by freebsd-questions: >>>>I was working with my machine and the last reboot caused my Gnome2 >>>>desktop to "disappear". By disappear, I'm talking about: The Home icon >>>>is gone. The trash icon is gone. The start here icon is gone. The >>>>wallpaper used to be brushed metal (the default wallpaper)now is is a >>>>blue/green solid color. Poking around, I believe the winddow manager was >>>>changed to Enlightenment from Sawfish (I changed it back with no change >>>>in results.) >>>> >>>>When I try to start Mozilla from an icon it does not start. If I open an >>>>xterm winddow, I get "No running window found." then the command prompt >>>>returns. Some applications, e.g. xosview, gaim, appear to work >>>>correctly. The screensaver seems to work correctly. If I signon with a >>>>different user ID, the results are almost the same except the logoff >>>>pulldown does not log you off. I'm also running GDM2. >>>> >>>>This is a 4.7-STABLE system that was last updated about 2 weeks ago. >>>> >>>>The only known changes/factors are: >>>>I had the Gnome system monitor running. It was answering pulldown list >>>>and buttons so slowly, I had to CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get out of it. (I >>>>ended up with nothing moving at all.) >>>>I installed healthd, which complained about IPv6 not being there. >>>>I added IPv6 support and rebooted. >>>>It was after the reboot for IPv6 that I noticed the problem. >>>> >>>>ANY help would be more than welcome. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Try creating a fresh user called gnome, make sure your hostname resolves >>>in either DNS or /etc/hosts, then try logging in as the gnome user. If >>>things fail, get the ~/.xsession-errors file. This will hopefully have >>>some useful stuff in it. Also, it would help to see a list of what's >>>currently installed on this machine. >>> >>>Joe >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Thanks >>>>Tom >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>Joe, >>I looked at ~/.xsession-errors and this was all that was in it: >>If you do not want to get beeps in X11 (XWindows), you can turn them off >>with >>xset b off >> >>Reminder, I could not do anything with the machine. I had to back it >>up, burn it down, and reinstall EVERYTHING. I have the backups but I do >>not have a machine I can lay the backups down on to test. >> >>I'm not expecting to get too far with this problem but, I feel, I have >>to at least try. >> >> > >So did you try to create a new user called gnome, and attempt the >login? So far, based on this information, there's not much I can do to >help you. > >Joe > > > >>Thanks... >> >> Joe, No. I could not recreate the problem because I do not have a machine to lay the filesystem backups down on to test. The best I was hoping for was someone might have seen the symptoms and knew what was going on. I'm going to drop this problem. I want to thank you for taking the time to try to help. I appreciate your efforts. Cheers... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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