Re: Strange behavior at session start
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:14:50AM -0500, Chris Thiel wrote:
> 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:
>
> --
> 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.
Which kernel ?
Sjoerd
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