Date: 31 May 2003 15:35:04 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Dave Bradshaw <dave_bradshaw@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome2.2 or 4.8 Stable Login logout Problem. Message-ID: <1054409704.7050.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1054407257.258.15.camel@saturn.bradshaw.home> References: <1054407257.258.15.camel@saturn.bradshaw.home>
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--=-p7Y04Wnm/6ZuXFukDgAp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 14:54, Dave Bradshaw wrote: > Dear All, >=20 > Since upgrading to 4.8 stable I have had problems logging in and logging > out. =20 > It can take up to three attempts to login, each time I get the message > your session lasted for less than 10 seconds please check > .xsession-errors or if I login the first time, then on login out the > screen either goes black and I am unable to do anything other than power > cycle the machine, or I get a message about the display being in use so > this session has been started on another display.=20 > These problems did not occur when running 4.7 or 4.8 RC. This may be symptomatic of missing libraries. Do you see any ld.so errors in your .xsession-errors? Do you see any application crashes when you run dmesg? >=20 > Looking at .xsession-errors file it is full of these error messages - >=20 > (gnome-panel:305): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_NAME contained > invalid UTF-8 > =20 > Window manager warning: Property _NET_WM_NAME on window 0x14000f4 > contained invalid UTF-8 > Window manager warning: Property _NET_WM_NAME on window 0x14000f4 > contained invalid UTF-8 What do you have set to startup when you login to GNOME? These messages may be benign. For instance, Phoenix has been known to cause this when browsing certain websites. >=20 > Yesterday I went through the process of upgrading all my ports, then > running cvsup stable-supfile, building and installing a new kernel, but > this has not rectified the problem. >=20 > Does anybody have any ideas about how this can rectified?=20 You can try moving ~/.gnome2/session file out of the way to force GNOME to start a default session. Also, answering my above questions can shed some more light on this. Joe >=20 > Thanks in advance.=20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Dave --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-p7Y04Wnm/6ZuXFukDgAp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+2QPob2iPiv4Uz4cRAgUFAJ9MQKbqiB3SfI4fxRJSzg5kLJmEswCgqeko dtDW6pVD7gBcCQ56DjBpgAs= =z3fq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-p7Y04Wnm/6ZuXFukDgAp--
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