Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:03:19 -0500 (CDT) From: David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME problems. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010021901510.2461-100000@sherman.spotnet>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Matthew Beauch wrote: >Up until this morining GNOME worked perfectly. Now whenever I startx or try >to >run a GNOME app from another window manager nothing happens. I have tried >reinstalling the gnomelibs-1.2.4_1 and gnomecore-1.2.2 packages many times >but this has not helped. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing >this? These things never happen without a reason. =) When it happens to me, I do some hard thinking about what changes I made between the time it last worked properly and the time it failed. It's really not possible for a third party to accurately diagnose this kind of problem, but if you can't figure out what you changed, there are some things I'd check to narrow it down. First, see if it's user-specific. If you can run Gnome as some other user (not root), then there's a problem with your user settings. Delete everything .gnome* in your home directory and run it again. If that fails, try running it as root, which will rule out a permissions problem (if root can run it, it's definitely perms). Finally, check and double check your network settings and make sure there aren't any inconsistencies. Gnome (and X in general) relies in internal networking being properly configured. In particular, make sure the output of `hostname` agrees with the name assigned to your IP address in /etc/hosts. Just some thoughts - good luck. - -d - -- David Talkington Community Networking Initiative dtalk@prairienet.org 217-244-1962 PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOdkiTL1ZYOtSwT+tAQH0Igf9G0832jOZ5qXTt1eoMCMpZZlo0sswiFLh p3VMQIKjweEe8S4Ws+qVl70sNV6USr6hLah/p/uB5GGg8AXR1/rDArAaPUnfWhGD zw6lKsUNHsOmPgqUtkd1CFKYlRJi9hb5wLm5iGCG3UZGVtqVsPv7xKd9bO6GeCRQ VX5qTr727btlzehLO1IfyYeIk6Y1jQYJ1BdBcxkxa6Lrcayb1stnYVmdbDigqmGi h7EAG0146VDQ48/rXJx/6zLZFaiOrnzfNIndAJd2mm6kJSXRGr0IUqf3XN3QtZwj +6GZrAZWlthA3b9dO2Hgh8JuYcRhmMKcOt6Oxcir7Cj7hGLoScHRpA== =7/JF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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