Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:45:24 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com>, freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome issues Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070824094414.026637a0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <746001.8761.qm@web88306.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <746001.8761.qm@web88306.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote:
>Good day all,
>
>I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had
>been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer
>using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon
>restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home)
>wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to
>return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I
>don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have
>any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize
>buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the
>window manager got corrupted by that improper
>shutdown.
>Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to
>rectify this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Michael
Sounds like your drive may be having issues. I would reboot in single user
mode and fsck the drive. You may also want to try the drive manufacturer's
diagnostic utility.
-Derek
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