From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 14:46:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA1116A41B for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:46:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B008713C47E for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:46:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l7OEk8tb008660; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:46:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070824094414.026637a0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:45:24 -0500 To: Michael S , freebsd-gnome , FreeBSD Mailing List From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <746001.8761.qm@web88306.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <746001.8761.qm@web88306.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Gnome issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:46:23 -0000 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.