Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Ian Thomas
<scraemondaemon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 

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> 
> Final update:
> 
> I deleted every file in my home directory that could
> possibly be related to gnome, leaving only the
> following config files:
> 
> .bash_profile, .bashrc, .emacs, .fetchmailrc,
> .procmailrc, .ssh
> 

Have you deleted the ~/.sawfish dir too, or at least the
~/.sawfish/sessions dir?

> Gnome started up with default settings and still
> failed to show a panel.  Watching the icons appear
> across the bottom of the splash screen appeared to
> show two gnome panel icons.  This would mean that two
> gnome panels attempted to start.  Doing the following
> showed that a panel was running
> 
> ps aux | grep panel
> 
> It wasn't however, showing up on the screen.  Repeated
> usage of the above combination showed that the panel
> kept starting and dieing, as it was listed with a
> different procid each time.  I was also unable to
> start a panel from the terminal.  Gnome told me that a
> panel was already running and asked if I would like to
> start one anyway.  I said yes, and still, no panel
> appeared.
> 
> I'm giving up on finding a solution to this problem.
> I'm going to wait until Sarge is released and update
> Gnome when that happens.  I'm hoping it's soon.  Gnome
> 1.4, in my experience, has been a complete disaster.
> My thanks to Anrea for attempting to figure out this
> problem with me.
> 


Andrea