Michael Leone on 6 Dec 2003 17:15:04 -0500 |
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:40, Stephen Gran wrote: > Check ~/.xsession-errors to see what the problem is. There was an issue > a while back with one of the GNOME libs (libbonobo? Can't quite > remember). I thought that was fixed though. > .xsession-errors: localhost being added to access control list _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root SESSION_MANAGER=local/latitude-cs:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2857 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). gnome-smproxy: unable to open display :0.0 sawfish: Can't open display: :0.0 Had to CTRL-ALT-BKSPACE to kill it. > As others have said, GNOME has switched to a gconf-registry sysytem for > handling details like what WM to use and so on, and they have decided > that the default is going to be metacity, instead of allowing any > compliant WM. *sigh* - starting to smack too much of Windows for my > tastes, but that's what they want, I guess. If your old GNOME setup > used a different WM, you may run into some problems. Wonder why mine says "sawfish", then? > If ~/.xsession-errors has nothing that looks fixable, and you're still > getting problems, make sure you have metacity installed, mv your old > setup out of the way (should be ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 ~/.gnome-private > ~/.gnome2-private) and try again - it may be some difficulty related to > your particular setup. Deleted all those; no change. Really makes me wonder why it wants the old sawfish, then. I have no gnome config files in my home directory. (except for config files for some gnome programs, such as evolution, which I am using to write this message, etc) > If none of that gets you anywhere, write back, > I'll try to dig up the library issue and the fix. It should be in the > archives of debian-gtk-gnome@lists.d.o if you want to look through, but > I think you'll have to search via google - lists was still down last I > looked. I purge gnome-session, gnome-control-center and metacity, and reinstalled. No joy. Attachment:
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