Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my
> Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been
> borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional.
>
> These are some of the issues:
> 1. Windows manager is "unknown" and no configuration tool is registered
> 2. windows are launched at the top of the screen & I cannot drag these
> elsewhere
> 3. clicking a mouse on a window does not bring it to the fore
> 4. there are no longer multiple workspaces
> 5. windows do not have the 'x' in the corner to close, nor any option to
> minimise/ enlarge
> 6. a screensaver launches after ~30 seconds of inactivity (I don't use a
> screensaver)
> 7. no key mapping exists
>
> Both metacity and nautilus are the most current versions. No other
> user-based changes made to configuration except for whatever gets
> configured in safe updates using update-manager.
>
> Can anyone please help - I really do need a usable desktop environment
> to work in.
>
> Thanks.
>
> AG
I can't help but confirm that strange things happen, at least for me
too.
A reboot always reset everything to normal.
If similar happens here, I sometimes get D-Bus errors, but again, after
rebooting everything was fixed.
Yesterday the GNOME terminal emulation all of a sudden changed from
normal letters to some cryptic letters, I closed and opened it ant
everything was ok. I lost the root command history and it kept lost.
My machine is a real-time machine with a self build kernel 2.6.39.1 and
I successfully switched ALSA and jackd by self build versions, but that
shouldn't cause any issues.
I suspect that D-Bus is broken.
Just a shot in the dark ;)
Ralf
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