Here is hopefully useful info for debugging:
I start gnome as suggested in "Quick Tour of GNOME Apps":
$ cat ~/.xinitrc
/usr/bin/X11/enlightenment
&
exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
I also tried icewm as window manager, same result.
My system is Debian Slink, upgraded from Debian 2.0r2. I had a mirror
of Slink on local disk, and I have checked it is identical to the original
(except that I don't mirror source and ports to other architectures).
$ grep panel /root/dpkg--list.1998-11-07
ii gnome-panel
0.30-1 Launch and/or dock
Gnome applications
ii libpanel-applet
0.30-1 Library for Gnome
Panel applets
tale@dilbert /amd/dilbert/export/home/tale/Work/Debian-doc/ddp
$
tale@dilbert /amd/dilbert/export/home/tale/Work/Debian-doc/ddp
$ uname -a
Linux dilbert 2.0.35
#5 Mon Aug 17 22:22:42 EEST 1998 i686 unknown
tale@dilbert /amd/dilbert/export/home/tale/Work/Debian-doc/ddp
$
I had Slink and GNOME running something like a month ago on a test system. There I had the panel working OK, but now it seems the upgrade on my production machine has not been OK.
If I try to start gnome-session after X Window and Enlightenment are already running (I kill -KILL:ed the panel first):
$ /usr/bin/gnome-session
SESSION_MANAGER=local/dilbert:/tmp/.ICE-unix/12595,tcp/dilbert:3178
Message: Initializing
CORBA for panel
connected to session manager
** WARNING **: Could
not open help topics file NULL
Gdk-Message:
** ERROR **: sigsegv
caught
WM already running,
exiting...
This produces a grey stripe across the bottom of display. It looks like
the panel, exept it is empty. The panel process eats CPU, though:
11:06am
up 19:18, 3 users, load average: 1.19, 0.69, 0.31
75 processes: 72 sleeping,
3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 43.5% user,
56.7% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 127932K av,
125876K used, 2056K free, 28568K shrd, 35136K buff
Swap: 130748K av,
39752K used, 90996K free
27368K cached
PID USER
PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM
TIME COMMAND
12598 tale
12 0 13100 12M 2300 R
0 95.5 10.2 2:40 panel
12619 tale
1 0 788 788 604 R
0 4.7 0.6 0:00 top
1
root 0 0 124
76 56 S 0 0.0
0.0 0:18 init
2
root 0 0
0 0 0 SW
0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd
The only complaints I get from dselect are libguile3, it recommends libguile3-doc which is not available.
I hope someone can help me on this.
-- Tapio Lehtonen Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI
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