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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com>
To:        Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome issues
Message-ID:  <919417.63835.qm@web88306.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <46CF1F18.2070102@math.arizona.edu>

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It definitely is not a new drive, but after shutting
down with shutdown -p it never happened.

I'll see what happens later today.
--- Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> 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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