On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:19:37 +0200, Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -- some parts simply don't >> work, and it will crash if you click rapidly in unexpected places etc. > This is a little vague - have you submitted bug reports against GNOME > packages about this?
I'm afraid I'm not competent to diagnose the problems I'm having. Things crash and burn a little bit too often to be suitable for inclusion in Debian stable, IMHO, is all I'm saying. X <---- You should probably stop reading here, but I include a bit of elaboration since you seemed to be asking for details. I cannot even repro the problem but in the end the symptom is always the same and Gnome applications in general seem to be able to get me into this situation, such as when I try one of the games or mess with the Gnome panel (add a drawer, drag around the items on the panel, etc). The program in question will stop responding, and by and by the whole desktop degrades to the point where killing the X server seems like the only way out (especially since the panel and thus the menu with the logout item tends to have frozen at this point) but it's not a solution either -- I get gdm back up but it's unable to log me in; after I enter my user ID and password, all I get is a dark screen (for what it's worth, I'd say it's dark indigo and not completely black, i.e. probably what the Gnome "starting up" background color is) and no activity whatsoever. I have tried to restart individual daemons (gdm, xfs, etc) but nothing short of going single-user and then bringing the system back up seems to cure the symptom anymore at this point. I don't expect you to be able to go anywhere with this, but I'd like to know if it's a known problem. Like I (sarcastically) remarked, this is not very new; I've been running Gnome 1.4 and had roughly similar experiences with that. (By and by you learn which parts to stay away from ... I basically run Gnome for the panel and session management only, these days. Sounds like I should switch to something like XFCE I guess, but I've been too lazy to change things.) /* era */ -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
