on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:07:37PM -0500, Titus Barik (barik@ieee.org) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So having a real-time conversation would probably be best at this point,
> but IRC has thus far been entirely useless. Hopefully one of you can
> help me.
>
> I'm starting to load the Gnome Desktop Environment in combination with
> either Sawfish or Metacity, but it hangs on startup (via startx). This
> is annoying.
Look at:
~/.xsession-errors
/var/log/XFree86.0.log
...or switch to console, shut down your display manager, switch to
console, and start a bare X session, start an xterm on it, and run your
desktop from that:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/?dm stop # switch back to this console if necessary
$ X :0 & # switch back to this console if necessary
$ xterm -display :0 &
...now switch to your X console <alt><F7>
...and start your X desktop in console. Watch messages.
> Here's the step by step:
>
> chronos:/home/barik# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
>
> There are 6 alternatives which provide `x-window-manager'.
>
> Selection Alternative
> -----------------------------------------------
> 1 /usr/bin/X11/amiwm
> 2 /usr/X11R6/bin/twm
> 3 /usr/bin/afterstep
> 4 /usr/bin/fluxbox
> + 5 /usr/bin/sawfish
> * 6 /usr/bin/metacity
>
> Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:
>
> Alright, Metacity is the default.
>
> As far as I know, all the packages that I need are installed.
>
> Next:
>
> I run startx as a normal user.
>
> The Gnome Desktop Splash Screen loads; the first icon loads
> successfully, and then the second icon, 'Window Manager', attempts to
> load and then promptly crashes, leaving a beautiful blue gradient
> screen in place of a useful window manager.
>
> .xsession-errors contains the following:
> _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/chronos:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1740
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
> Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Check permissions of /tmp. Should match:
drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 1208 2003-11-28 04:54 /tmp
> I don't have a default ~/.xinit or ~/.xsession or anything of that
> nature. What's going on? Where can I look to further diagnose this
> problem? Other logs?
See above. Google your error messages.
> Curiously, if I set the default window manager to fluxbox, and run
> startx again, everything loads fine.
Sounds like a window manager problem. Might check your config files and
possibly move them to a backup directory, forcing yourself to start from
a blank slate. Or create a test user account.
> The other interesting tidbit can be found under ~/.gnome2 which has:
>
> -rw------- 1 barik barik 2 2003-11-26 21:30
> .gnome-smproxy-1VDQeN
> -rw------- 1 barik barik 2 2003-11-26 21:53
> .gnome-smproxy-8aQJdd
NFC.
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
The revolution will not be televised.
You can apt-get it from the usual mirrors, however. http://www.debian.org/
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