Re: problems starting GNOME
Make sure the loopback interface is up:
ifconfig lo
if not:
ifup lo
Christophe
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:12:41PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:24:24AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > > My cousin is having problems starting GNOME on his up to date unstable
> > > box. He logs in from GDM, and says he never gets past the gnome splash
> > > screen. He has given me his X config, contents of .xsession-errors and
> > > process list of the "frozen" login.
> > Try to start your session with startx from a console. This may help.
>
> No, he tried that already, with a .xinitrc that calls gnome-session, and
> no luck either.
>
> What Carlos Perell? told me on IRC last night is interesting. From the
> logs:
>
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/neurotico:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5631
>
> and
>
> 266 ? S 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000
>
> SESSION_MANAGER should refer to pid 266, not 5631.
>
> When I talk to my cousin again, I'll tell him to check that out. I'm
> suspecting he has a bad /etc/hosts, or something, too.
>
> Jordi
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