Re: Gnome not starting.. (after a crash)

[Andrea Vettorello <molotov@dei.unipd.it>]

Paul Schulz wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> 'Gnome' is not starting up anymore, and I'm not able to run
> gnome applications:
>
> It opens a connection on the localhost to port 16001,
> and waits, but doesn't get anything.. and seems to just be hanging.
>
> What is this port?  I don't know how the gnome system works, so any
> pointers (to documentation or whatever) would be useful.

Well, since no one replied so far i try to give a little feedback. The port 16001, if i recall
correctly, is used by esound. Is your sound card running correctly? You could try to stop the
daemon with "esdctl off" command.

Look for a stale "/tmp/.esd/socket" file, and if so try removing it, or try remove the session
files in your "~/.gnome" directory...

Hope this helps


Andrea