From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 17:48:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21E537B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:48:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED67043F9B for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:48:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h141l7DZ054758; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:47:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Post mortum on Gnome2 problem From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Tom Parquette Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List In-Reply-To: <3E3EDEE3.809@twcny.rr.com> References: <3E3EDEE3.809@twcny.rr.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-af4CwZr98VJ+yHW0OX1F" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1044323279.71367.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 03 Feb 2003 20:47:59 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-af4CwZr98VJ+yHW0OX1F Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > email and most of my stuff with it. I have finished rebuilding and I'm=20 > back on the air. >=20 > Below is the email I tried to send to the questions list to see if=20 > someone could help me. It was thrown back at me. I guess something=20 > thought I was spam. >=20 > Anyway, I would like to see if anybody has any ideas on what might have=20 > caused this. > The configuration is NOT running on any machine but I was able to tar=20 > the filesystems and ftp them to my wife's window$ machine before I was=20 > forced to reinstall. >=20 > Has anybody seen anything like this? > Even though an answer would not help at this point, if there is=20 > something I did that could cause the problem again, I'll call this a=20 > learning experience and not do it again. > TIA for any help. >=20 > Here is the email that was refused by freebsd-questions: > I was working with my machine and the last reboot caused my Gnome2=20 > desktop to "disappear". By disappear, I'm talking about: The Home icon=20 > is gone. The trash icon is gone. The start here icon is gone. The=20 > wallpaper used to be brushed metal (the default wallpaper)now is is a=20 > blue/green solid color. Poking around, I believe the winddow manager was=20 > changed to Enlightenment from Sawfish (I changed it back with no change=20 > in results.) >=20 > When I try to start Mozilla from an icon it does not start. If I open an=20 > xterm winddow, I get "No running window found." then the command prompt=20 > returns. Some applications, e.g. xosview, gaim, appear to work=20 > correctly. The screensaver seems to work correctly. If I signon with a=20 > different user ID, the results are almost the same except the logoff=20 > pulldown does not log you off. I'm also running GDM2. >=20 > This is a 4.7-STABLE system that was last updated about 2 weeks ago. >=20 > The only known changes/factors are: > I had the Gnome system monitor running. It was answering pulldown list=20 > and buttons so slowly, I had to CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get out of it. (I=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-af4CwZr98VJ+yHW0OX1F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+PxvPb2iPiv4Uz4cRAuBgAJ9+5MFgunEPMjJPlImnBB6h67ZbBgCfQSKV 4UKQdIjmY3MVDRcp8m7BSGo= =UhrL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-af4CwZr98VJ+yHW0OX1F-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message