At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:27:09 -0700 Greg Bengeult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge >>> -uDNav world) exhibits every one of the problems that you had. At >>> least you can take solace in the fact that you're not alone. >>> >>> >> >> I really need some gnome apps (especially gnucash for my checking acct >> and evolution for my schedule). I have plenty of data backups but no >> backup machine. A reinstall is possible, but of course painful. I >> could start >> >> emerge -e world >> >> I would just like some agreement that this is not likely to make >> things worse. Currently with emacs and firefox, I can read/send mail, >> and prepare and view my (html) class notes. So I do have something to >> lose. >> >> Hopefully someone will give us some help; this group is very good for >> that. >> >> allan >> > My experience was similar to yours. I found that I had to turn off the > option that saves your session when you log out, and then delete the > file ~/.gnome2/session. After this, my new session would open up OK and > the window manager would start working. I have no idea what is causing > the problem, but it sure doesn't like something that is being written to > the session file. Sadly that didn't help here. I deleted the session file and never saved session on logout. There is no session file and still gnome apps don't work except as root. thanks for the help, allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
