HP nx7400 - Fedora 7 gnome busted total

[Jay Goodman]

This sounds like a known issue:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242059

I have a simple work around that works on my laptop

edit /etc/esd.conf
change
default_options=
to
default_options=-nobeeps -unix -as 2 -terminate



> Hi List,
>
> Fedora 7 is totally busted for me.  I cry.
>
> The problem I'm having is that when I login to my laptop, my gnome
> session usually locks up.  When I look at my process list, I can see
> that only some of the usual gnome session processes have started.  Other
> times, it looks like everything started (i.e. in terms of running
> processes), but the panels don't start complete (missing launchers,
> applets, etc.).  Sometimes gnome appears to have started properly, but
> as soon as I try to launch an app, the panels lock up again, and slowly
> the desktop becomes unusable again.
>
> I have to kill X several times before the freaking gnome session starts
> correctly.  Even then, there's no guarantee it will stay running because
> a few times gnome has locked up after a few minutes of use.
>
> Today when I booted the machine, X refused to start up.  I looked in the
> log, and I saw backtraces: X had crashed out.  WTH?!  Just the day
> before it was starting okay.  I eventually managed to get X to start by
> changing the driver from "intel" to "vesa", but the screen was all
> messed up because I couldn't get the proper res (1680x1050).
>
> I've tried fresh installations of both the x86_64 and i386 versions on
> my brand new HP nx7400 Core 2 DUO laptop.  In fact, I _just_ completed
> an install of the i386 version (PXE installs in each case), and I'm
> having the same damn problem - gnome doesn't start properly.  I wasted
> my evening getting this shit installed.
>
> Here's my smolt profile:
>
> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=7667e830-8eba-449c-a58d-49a86e9152fa
>
> Does anyone have any idea what in the hell is going on?
>
> I have to go back to Fedora Core 6 - I need this laptop for work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir
> --
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
> Linux 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux
> 21:24:01 up 16 days, 8:03, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.18, 0.36
>
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