Problems under gnome desktop with today's rawhide updates... can anyone confirm?

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Just applied today's updates... and rebooted and ive seeing so odd
> behavior in the gnome desktop
> 
> 1) gnome put me into a "failsafe" gnome desktop according to post
> login screen dialogs.. not sure what that means other than my startup
> programs didnt run. Never seem this failure mode before so I'm not
> really sure how to diagnose.
> 
> 2) xchat will not start for me  unless i run it under strace.
> run xchat from the terminal.. window pops up and disappears and i get
> a segfault message after a number of glib warnings
> 
> run strace xchat from the terminal and it magically works.
> is this a weird race condition?
> 
> 3) network manager segfaults on desktop login and using the
> preferences dialog i can no longer get the icon to appear in the
> notification area
> 
> 
> anyone else seeing similar issues?
> 
> -jef
> 

Could it be this:

Am Samstag, den 25.02.2006, 11:11 -0500 schrieb CodeHeads:
 > > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:05 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
 >> > > hello,
 >> > >
 >> > > since todays update, i cannot choose kde as an alternative gui. 
where
 >> > > can i set i manually?
 >> > >
 >> > > Thanks,
 >> > > Roger
 >> > >
 > >
 > > I believe it is in /etc/sysconfig/desktop
 > > --

It's solved by an error i think from the update. The path
in /etc/gdm/Xsession was pointing false to /etc/xinit/Xsession. I
corrected to /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession - now also Gnome is working again.



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