Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:28:03 -0500 From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Post mortum on Gnome2 problem Message-ID: <3E3EDEE3.809@twcny.rr.com>
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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. Thanks Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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