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Re: [PLUG] Got problems with Ximian Gnome Desktop
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I believe there is a util that comes with nautilus to clean it out. I saw
something on Ximian's site. It had something to do with nautilus spawning
too many instances of it's self and slowing down the box. Sorry I can't
remember what it was.
On my RH 7.2 box I believe that the window manager is chosen by
~/.gnome/default.wm.
Jon
On 03/12/01 08:59 -0500, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> I've got a PC at home which I've run into problems with (my own fault).
>
> The power to the PC ended up being cut whilst Red Carpet was in the
> middle of downloading stuff.
>
> After booting the PC up again, I found that the desktop didn't come up
> properly. It keeps on trying to generate itself, then fails, and tries
> again. In the beginning, I was able to get gtop loaded and saw that
> nautilus kept on being spawned.
>
> If I log in as root, all is fine. I don't think root is using nautilus
> as desktop manager because the Home Directory icon is a folder, not the
> nautilus house.
>
> It seems to me that the easiest way of getting the normal user account's
> desktop working again is to replace nautilus as the desktop manager.
> After that I can try to repair nautilus somehow.
>
> I've looked at all the config files I can think of, but can't see how
> the above can be achieved. Also, I have no idea what gnome config files
> to look at anyway....
>
> I've looked at /var/log/messages after attempting a normal user desktop
> load. Included here is what seems to be relevant to the attempt -
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Dec 2 23:13:37 localhost PAM_unix[4412]: (gdm) session opened for user colin by (uid=0)
> Dec 2 23:13:39 localhost gnome-name-server[4626]: starting
> Dec 2 23:13:39 localhost gnome-name-server[4626]: name server starting
> Dec 2 23:13:43 localhost kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
> Dec 2 23:14:10 localhost last message repeated 6 times
> Dec 2 23:14:12 localhost gnome-name-server[4626]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting
> Dec 2 23:14:12 localhost PAM_unix[4412]: (gdm) session closed for user colin
> Dec 2 23:14:12 localhost gdm[4412]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Do the log entries make sense to anyone? I'm stumped!
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction??
>
> --
> regs
> rupert
>
>
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