Re: Strange behavior at session start
Andreas writes:
> for the last couple of days I get some very strange behavior when I
> try to log in to Gnome after starting up the computer or restarting X.
This just hit me this morning.
> X seems to start alright. However, when I log in on my usual account
> (pc), it just shows the blank screen. I can move the mouse, but
> nothing else happens -- neither my desktop starts nor any apps open
> from a previous session. There is some disk activity for a while, but
> it may well be from background services, not sure about that.
I get the same behavior.
> I kill X via ctrl-alt-backspace and log in via gdm as another
> user. Everything works ok. Then, I start another session via
> Applications-> System Tools -> New login. It brings up gdm, I log in
> as pc again and, voilà -- everything runs as expected!
I tried other users also but none of them worked, even a new user.
> Do you have any idea what could be wrong there?
I think it's a problem with hald. I get the following in
.xsession-errors:
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libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised
"No reply within specified time"
** (gnome-volume-manager:7712): WARNING **: manager.c/1105: seems that HAL is not running
--
Killing the hald process allows logging in to complete (as far as I
can tell).
By the way, I use experimental gnome packages.
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Chris Thiel
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