This is more appropriate on -gtk-gnome than on -boot. Perhaps somebody there knows what your problem is.
Michael On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:52:08PM +0300, era eriksson wrote: > 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 */ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
