Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 15:13:26 -0500 From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Post mortum on Gnome2 problem Message-ID: <3E401EE6.8060604@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1044323279.71367.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <3E3EDEE3.809@twcny.rr.com> <1044323279.71367.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >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 >>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. >> >> > >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 >> >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> Joe, I looked at ~/.xsession-errors and this was all that was in it: If you do not want to get beeps in X11 (XWindows), you can turn them off with xset b off Reminder, I could not do anything with the machine. I had to back it up, burn it down, and reinstall EVERYTHING. I have the backups but I do not have a machine I can lay the backups down on to test. I'm not expecting to get too far with this problem but, I feel, I have to at least try. Thanks... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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