Bug#245504: Dell GX270, sarge beta3 netinst credit card i386, mostly successful
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:19:37 +0200, Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se> wrote:
>> -- some parts simply don't
>> work, and it will crash if you click rapidly in unexpected places etc.
> This is a little vague - have you submitted bug reports against GNOME
> packages about this?
I'm afraid I'm not competent to diagnose the problems I'm having.
Things crash and burn a little bit too often to be suitable for
inclusion in Debian stable, IMHO, is all I'm saying.
X <---- You should probably stop reading here, but I include a bit of
elaboration since you seemed to be asking for details.
I cannot even repro the problem but in the end the symptom is always
the same and Gnome applications in general seem to be able to get me
into this situation, such as when I try one of the games or mess with
the Gnome panel (add a drawer, drag around the items on the panel,
etc).
The program in question will stop responding, and by and by the whole
desktop degrades to the point where killing the X server seems like
the only way out (especially since the panel and thus the menu with
the logout item tends to have frozen at this point) but it's not a
solution either -- I get gdm back up but it's unable to log me in;
after I enter my user ID and password, all I get is a dark screen (for
what it's worth, I'd say it's dark indigo and not completely black,
i.e. probably what the Gnome "starting up" background color is) and no
activity whatsoever.
I have tried to restart individual daemons (gdm, xfs, etc) but nothing
short of going single-user and then bringing the system back up seems
to cure the symptom anymore at this point.
I don't expect you to be able to go anywhere with this, but I'd like
to know if it's a known problem. Like I (sarcastically) remarked, this
is not very new; I've been running Gnome 1.4 and had roughly similar
experiences with that.
(By and by you learn which parts to stay away from ... I basically run
Gnome for the panel and session management only, these days. Sounds
like I should switch to something like XFCE I guess, but I've been too
lazy to change things.)
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