On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I just upgraded squeeze to wheezy on a remote vps host, a "Linode." > Gnome will only launch as far as running the session provided by the > gnome-session-fallback' package. > > Prior to installing _that_ package gnome's failure was sufficiently > hard to prevent the vpn server on the host from launching at all. > > If, instead of gnome-session, either xfce4-session or icewm-session > is named in the vpn server xstartup file, they come up very nicely, > and, hence, so does my vpn server. > > Here are the relevant lines from syslog: > > -- syslog gluck -- > > Jan 25 18:52:23 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23363]: Gdk-WARNING: > gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) > on X server :1.#012 > Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: WARNING: > GSIdleMonitor: IDLETIME counter not found > Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: WARNING: Session > 'gnome' runnable check failed: Exited with code 1 > Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: WARNING: Unable > to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for > process '23530' Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: > WARNING: Could not parse desktop file > > -- syslog gluck -- > > Although I can live with icewm I would rather have my old gnome > desktop back!
Your system probably older, and lacks the hardware requirements to run GNOME 3 -- mine does, too -- and hence it drops to fallback mode. The problem is usually the graphics card. One of the GNOME 3 requirements I know to be true is 3D hardware acceleration. Some have stated that you should have at least 512MB RAM on the card, too. It's hard to know as the GNOME 3 developers never state explicitly anywhere what the minimums are to run it. The only thing they do say is the system needs to be newer than 4 to 5 years old. The solution? Use a GNOME 2 fork like MATE or Cinnamon that do run on older hardware. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140126174920.330f7...@debian7.boseck208.net
