kicker
On Thursday 29 November 2001 14:54, Chris Mayes wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> Today, I resolved to fix the GTK font issue that has been plaguing my
> install of dia for about a month... After trying various workarounds as
> suggested by various sources (none of which solved the problem,) I decided
> to try to upgrade from XFree86 4.0.3 to 4.1.0.
>
> Miraculously, this solved my dia problem. Unfortunately, my kpanel now
> dies (twice) upon startup. The panel begins painting itself during the
> initial startup, disappears, tries to paint itself again during the app
> restoration stage, and dies again. This, of course, does not necessarily
> have anything to do with my upgrading X, but that was the major preceding
> event to the current symptom.
>
> What is the manual command to start a panel from an xterm? The 'kpanel'
> binary does not appear to exist on my filesystem (or at least the locate db
> has missed it...) Where should I look for error reports? I didn't see
> anything promising in syslog, kdm.log or messages. Basically, how do i go
> about diagnosing and fixing this problem?
>
> My stats:
>
> Debian (mainly) Woody
> Kernel 2.4.12
> kdebase 2.2.1.0-6
> xfree86-base 4.1.0-9
> xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-9
>
> TIA,
>
> -Chris
