Re: Gnome-session hangs at splash screen
Hey William,
Do you start up anything with a dialog, such as a gksu?
When I logon I have a dialog for gksu to start Firestarter which stops
the rest of Gnome from loading. It is covered by the splash screen. So
I just blindly type in the password hit enter and loading then
continues.
Could it be that simple for you?
digger
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:24, William McKee wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have just updated my workstation from Woody running backports of Gnome
> 2.2 to Sid which installed Gnome 2.4. I am now having a problem getting
> past the new Gnome splashscreen. Basically, gnome-session hangs at the
> splash screen.
>
> I found some messages from about a year ago that detailed problems with
> libbonobo-activation4. However, those bugs are now archived in the BTS.
> Nonetheless, I tried to downgrade to the 1.0.3 versions of the bonobo
> libraries. However, these no longer appear to be available so that did
> not work.
>
> Finally, I found a few recent threads in this newsgroup which describe
> somewhat similar problems to what I am having. I tried removing and
> reinstalling gnome-session. At one time, I could get gnome-session
> started from a terminal in IceWM. However, gnome-panel wasn't installed.
> When I installed gnome-panel and logged out of IceWM, I'm back with the
> hangs at splashscreen.
>
> Next, I tried removing and installing both gnome-session and gnome-core.
> At first, I didn't even get to the splashscreen; subsequent restarts
> show the splash screen but continue to hang.
>
> If I run `apt-get -f update`, I am told that bonobo-activation and
> libbonobo-activation4 have been kept back. When I try to install either
> one, I am told there is no available version and that libbonobo2-0
> replaces it. If I try to install libbonobo2-0, I'm told that it already
> is the most recent version.
>
> I seem to be in some kind of bad dependency loop here. Any suggestions
> on what to try besides rebuilding my system? I'm not getting much info
> in my .xsession-errors log.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> William
>
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