On 01 Sep 2001 16:19:08 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ...when I load the Gnome desktop into play the machine will freeze at > the first gnome action I try (selecting an icon of the desktop or > similar). Locks up tight.
This will sound weird... Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to play audio - certainly I've had this with nautilus on various GNOME desktops so I'm just guessing that it could also have this effect. Please let me know whether you have audio? > To get into X again once Gnome has aborted I have to reboot! This is probably because your /tmp contains stale files which are preventing a correct login - when you reboot I suspect they are getting cleaned, etc. Remove any lockfiles from /tmp or just clean it and restart X. --jcm
