On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:07:26PM +0100, Mark Schouten wrote: > Perhaps you could be more specific? uhm indeed.... the image shown me on the start of xdm is a pixelized chaos, i thus disabled xdm.... in fact a strange mix of old images somehow still stored in the grafic card buffer....
started with startx.... > * Does your displaymanager start? starts, reports no errors, but i only get an empy frame on the display where normally the chooser would be... typing blindly the login doesn't yield any result... > * Does your windowmanager start? i can't start another one.. so somehow sawfish seems started.... > What do /var/log/XFree86.0.log ~/.xsession-errors say? general one ends with: (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! which seems quite normal.... xsession-errors gives: SESSION_MANAGER=local/laptop:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1357 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 no idea what that means.... i started X with : startx 2>&1 |tee log and that gives a lot more stuff, but still: ** (gnome-panel:8513): WARNING **: Unable to load panel stock icon 'go' No panel_id set for panel object with ID 00000001 Unable to open desktop file file:///home/bboett/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launcher s/hammer-0051ace0aa.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file 'file:///home/ bboett/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/hammer-0051ace0aa.desktop': File not found last 2 things repeated several times.... i tryed exporting the display from a console and start there an xterm to see what's happening.... the strange thing is, the xterm launches, gives no error messages anyway, and on the display appears a rectangle with some old grafic buffer displayed inside, no windowmanager borders, no shell inside.... its really strange... -- ciao bboett ============================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett =============================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]