Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:10:32 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome issues Message-ID: <46CF1F18.2070102@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070824094414.026637a0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <746001.8761.qm@web88306.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070824094414.026637a0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Derek Ragona wrote: > At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote: >> Good day all, >> >> I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had >> been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer >> using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon >> restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home) >> wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to >> return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I >> don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have >> any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize >> buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the >> window manager got corrupted by that improper >> shutdown. >> Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to >> rectify this? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Michael > > Sounds like your drive may be having issues. I would reboot in single > user mode and fsck the drive. You may also want to try the drive > manufacturer's diagnostic utility. > > -Derek I always shutdown computer using Gnome menu. Never had that issue. I am clueless why is that happening to you. I think Derek gave you a good idea. Predrag
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