Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 09:53:03 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Gnome Problem After Portupgrade Message-ID: <00a201c1f2c2$fdf19610$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <010101c1f206$8c69bcf0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <1020441810.784.14.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Gnome Problem After Portupgrade > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 15:24, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > I attempted to use portupgrade -rR to update gnome and all of it's > > dependencies. I had a few problems along the way when portupgrade > > failed to download one of the required tarballs and left my system in an > > inconsistent state. I've worked through the issues and finally got the > > upgrade completed but receive this error (in a window) when starting > > gnome: > > > > Desk Guide Alert > > > > GNOME Desktop Guide (Pager) > > > > You are not running a GNOME Compliant Window Manager. GNOME support by > > the window manager is strongly recommended for proper Desk Guide > > Operation. > > > > I'm using Sawfish that installs with the gnome port. I've used > > pkg_deinstall to remove sawfish-gnome and then rebuilt it from ports > > using portinstall. Same error. Any ideas how to fix this short of > > rebuiling gnome in its entirety? > > Can you send me the build log from sawfish-gnome as well as a screenshot > of the error? Thanks. I'd be happy to. I'll send the build log privately to keep traffic down on the list. But how do I save the screenshot as a file? I can't get anything to run on the gnome desktop although the screensaver will kick after a while. I'll describe the window and maybe that will be enough for you to know what it looks like. I use gdm (although I'm having the same problem via startx) to log on. After the log on, the gnome 1.4 startup window appears and it seems to load normally. Once my desktop appears, the background is completly white. Both upper and lower menu bars are there and respond when clicked on. In the far upper left corner of the screen is the error window. The size of the window is such that about 12 of them would fit on the screen, 3 down and 4 across. The window is grey. If you break it into thirds, in the top third in the upper left corner of the window is a red circle with a yellow bar. In the middle of the top third is where is says "Desk Guide Alert" centered. Centered in the top of the middle third is where is says "GNOME Desktop Guide (Pager)". The bottom third of the window is where the rest of the text is in a "paragraph". At the very bottom in the right hand corner is an "OK" button. Here's a little ASCII art of the window: -------------------------------------------------- | | | (Red Circle Desk Guide Alert | | w/yellow bar) | | | | | | | | | | GNOME Desktop Guide (Pager) | | | | | | | | You are not running a GNOME Compliant | | Window Manager. GNOME support by the | | window manager is strongly recommended | | for proper Desk Guide operation. | | | |------------------------------------------------| | | | ----------------- | | | | | | | OK | | | | | | | ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------- Thanks for your help. Let me know if you need anything else. The build log will follow very shortly. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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