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Re: [PLUG] Blank Gnome Desktop
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Given the symptoms you describe, it seems that it is more a display
problem than an inability to log in. As you say, events which can only
occur after a user has logged in do indeed occur on your machine,
although the desktop is black.
If the user were completely locked out and unable to log in, I would
suggest a permissions problem. This is more likely a problem with X. I
recommend installing either KDE or xcfe. Even if GDM is still run
automatically on boot, you'll be able to choose wither KDE or xcfe from
a drop-down menu at the login screen. Then, when you type in your
information and try to log in, it won't run GNOME.
I'm not familiar with PCLOS's package system, so I can't give specific
advice on how to install KDE or xcfe.
On 10/28/2009 10:45 AM, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Hello all...
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> I'm having an issue with PCLinuxOS 2009 (Gnome) that I could use some help with.
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> I was using PCLOS-Gnome 2007 on my system without any issues, until I did an update via synaptic. At that point, after I logged on, my desktop was completely black - no menu bars, no background, nothing except a mouse cursor.
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> I had been planning to install 2009 anyway, and had been told that a "fresh" install was required (IE: couldn't update 2007 to be 2009), so I didn't worry about it and installed 2009 on top of my current install. I formatted at least the / and /usr partitions, if not others, but did NOT format the /home partition.
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> I still get the same issue - root can log in and get a desktop, but my user can't. I get a graphical login prompt and can log in, but when it switches to the desktop, it just goes black. I get a login sound, and have seen pop-up windows after logging in (like "checking for updates"), and have a mouse cursor, but other than that it's just black. If I ctrl-alt-bkspace it drops out of X to a console window.
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> I've removed my users .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome,. .gnome2, .gnome2_private, .metacity and .nautilus directories to no avail. All permissions/ownerships looks right - group # and user #s look valid. /tmp isn't full, and there's nothing in there that looks like locks or temporary X files. I did a apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure I was running the latest of everything.
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> The vid card is a Geforce FX 5500, and xorg.conf shows the "nv" driver and valid settings for the card and monitor.
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> I've changed the default boot runlevel to 3 to prevent X starting at boot and then logged in as my user to a console. Then started X by doing "startx" and dumping the output to a file - nothing looks wrong in the log, but all I get is the black screen.
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> I'm not sure what else to look at - any ideas? I can provide any relevant confs or logs if someone wants them...
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> How do I do something like switch to xfce? Is that something I can do "in-place", like with a package install or something, or is it a larger issue than that?
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> Thanks for any info....
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