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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:10:32 -0700
From:      Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>
To:        Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>,  questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome issues
Message-ID:  <46CF1F18.2070102@math.arizona.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070824094414.026637a0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Derek Ragona wrote:
> 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

I always shutdown computer using Gnome menu. Never had that issue. I am 
clueless why is that happening to you. I think Derek gave you a good idea.
Predrag




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