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RE: Gnome xml parsing error & only allows one login



No, it applies to all users.  I set up a new user test, and got 
the beginning of the desktop loading, and that was it.  After
the initial splash showing stuff coming up, just a grey screen
with a bar across the top and bottom.

Note that KDE works fine, except for the intermittent error.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Williams [mailto:anw@csunv.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:01 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Gnome xml parsing error & only allows one login
> 
> 
> Thanks.  I'll run through this this evening.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Nelson [mailto:chris@cavein.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:25 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Gnome xml parsing error & only allows one login
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:18:23PM -0400, Allen Williams wrote:
> > > When I select Gnome as my desktop environment, I get an 
> XML parsing
> > > error dialog, with no close button but a window decoration 
> > that lets
> > > me close it. When I close it, the system just hangs, and I have to
> > > CTL-ALT F1 to get a console window and kill the X process.  
> > The error
> > > is:
> > > 
> > > XML parsing error: xml processing instruction not at start
> > of external
> > > entity.
> > > Location: chrome://mozapps/content/profile/ProfileSelection.xul
> > > Line number 1, column 1:
> > > 
> > > (Isn't THAT  a user-friendly message?)
> > 
> > This looks like a mozilla or firefox error message.  Do other
> > users get the same message?  (if there are none, create one 
> > and check).  If it's just you, move your gnome config files 
> > out of the way (I think it's .gnome2 and .gconf directories, 
> > but it's been awhile since I've used
> > gnome) and try again.  Then move stuff back bit by bit to see 
> > what's failing.
> >  
> > > When I use a KDE session, there is an intermittent error.
> > Everything
> > > seems OK until I logout, then sometimes I get a splash 
> screen, like
> > > what's supposed to be the background, but no login dialogue.
> > 
> > What happens when you recycle ?dm?  (Cntl-Alt-Backspace or
> > '/etc/init.d/?dm restart)  Any error messages in the logfiles?
> > 
> > --
> > Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------
> > Ambiguity:
> > 	Telling the truth when you don't mean to.
> > 
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