sid dist-upgrade has hosed gnome :(
Hi all,
I recently (last week) did a dist-upgrade on a sid system and had heaps
of trouble from it. The worst was that udev didn't work right, so
I didn't get most devices, but that's now fixed. But now...
gdm does not start correctly. Xorg starts fine, and shows the
grey-brown background thingy it always does, with the black cross mouse
pointer (which can move) but gdm never appears. xdm works fine,
but gdm does nothing. I have tried this both with gdmgreeter and
gdmlogin.
When I login with xdm, the keyboard does not work - or rather doesn't
work very much. Keystrokes don't get through to some
applications. The WM (metacity) seems to get the events OK,
because I can switch desktops, alt-tab between windows, close windows
using keyboard shortcuts etc, but applications seem to miss many
keystrokes. For instance, when I start gnome-terminal nothing I
type appears at the command prompt, and I can't access the menus using
keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard does work in nautilus, except
for when the focus is in the location bar, and then it doesn't
work. OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 does seem to work OK.
I have tried moving .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome, .gnome2, .gnome-desktop out of the way, but that made no difference.
Another problem I'm having is that when I click on the Applications
menu, the content appears for a very brief moment (< 0.2 seconds)
and then goes again. This is making it hard to check which
applications receive events and which don't.
Lastly, geda seems to crash whenever I choose New or Open from the Project menu.
Does anyone have any hints on tracking these down?
Tom
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