Re: gnome refusing to start ... ?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:40:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This morning i am having trouble starting gnome. It starts all right
> (including the small pmud device permission problem window i have been seeing
> since some weeks), but after the splash screen goes all the way no panel nor
> nautilus are loaded. A small bit of looking around showed me :
>
> AUDIT: Tue Aug 17 10:21:38 2004: 2895 X: client 2 rejected from local host
> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
> AUDIT: Tue Aug 17 10:21:38 2004: 2895 X: client 4 rejected from local host
> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
> AUDIT: Tue Aug 17 10:21:38 2004: 2895 X: client 3 rejected from local host
> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
>
> in /var/log/gdm/\:0.log. Also, starting gnome-session by hand gives me :
>
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
>
> but strace didn't help in finding more info. Also, gnome-panel was purged from
> my system :
>
> pn gnome-panel <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible)
>
> Which is probably the reason of the problem come to think of it. Any idea why
> important gnome components like the panel was purged from my system ?
Indeed that was the problem. I wonder who removed nautilus, gnome-panel and
gnome-applets on my system without me noticing.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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