Gnome desktop does nothing no icons

Cameron Meadors cmeadors at gmail.com
Tue May 22 14:31:06 UTC 2007


I have seen something similar.  Are esd and sound event enabled?
There is a problem with esd/alsa blocking apps from starting.  This
includes gnome-session because it plays the login sound.  Try killing
esd and see if you can start new apps.

cameron

On 5/21/07, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>
> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> > <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:29:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: Gnome desktop does nothing no icons
> >
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:53:52AM -0700, Antonio
> > Olivares wrote:
> > > Dear list,
> > >
> > >    Apparently Gnome does not want to work.  It
> > just
> > > loads the wallpaper and no icons.
> >
> > Does not square with what I am seeing (although,
> > admittedly,
> > this is not a fresh installation).  Did you try to
> > look for
> > errors in various logs?  Maybe there was something
> > in
> > ~/.xsession-errors before you clobbered it on the
> > next login?
> > It sounds like your nautilus process has troubles.
> > Is this
> > package installed?
> >
> >    Michal
>
> > It is installed.  Here are the details.
> >
> > [olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa nautilus*
> > nautilus-extensions-2.18.1-2.fc7
> > nautilus-2.18.1-2.fc7
> > nautilus-cd-burner-2.18.0-2.fc7
> > nautilus-sendto-0.10-4.fc7
> > [olivares at localhost ~]$ cat ~/.xsession-errors
> > localuser:olivares being added to access control
> > list
> > xset:  bad font path element (#105), possible causes
> > are:
> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong
> > permissions
> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> > startkde: Starting up...
> > /usr/bin/startkde: line 380: xprop: command not
> > found
> > kbuildsycoca running...
> > X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
> >   Major opcode:  158
> >   Minor opcode:  6
> >   Resource id:  0x69
> > X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
> >   Major opcode:  54
> >   Minor opcode:  0
> >   Resource id:  0x14007c9
> > X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
> >   Major opcode:  158
> >   Minor opcode:  6
> >   Resource id:  0x69
> > X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
> >   Major opcode:  158
> >   Minor opcode:  6
> >   Resource id:  0x69
> > X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
> >   Major opcode:  158
> >   Minor opcode:  6
> >   Resource id:  0x69
> > [olivares at localhost ~]$
> >
> > Just for the sake of it, I created a new user and I
> > logged in.  Things looked ok.  When I tried to
> > logout, I clicked ok and it hung.  I clicked on the
> > X and it told me to wait or to force quit.  I did
> > not want to shut down so I clicked on force quit.  I
> > had to ctrl+alt+backspace to log back in to my
> > original account and in KDE since gnome does not
> > work. Should I remove .gnome, .gnome2 directories
> > and hope that the problem goes away or file a
> > BUGZILLA?
> >
> > Thanks for replying, I was getting desperate and you
> > have saved the day.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
>
> Following up on the other regular machine which is
> also running Rawhide, I find that ~/.gnome2 directory
> has
>
> session and the one that has the problem does not
>
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ ls .gnome2
> accels   gedit-metadata.xml    nautilus-scripts  share
> evince   gnome-volume-control  panel2.d          yelp
> gedit-2  keyrings              session
> yelp.d
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ cd .gnome2
> [olivares at localhost .gnome2]$ cat session
>
> [Default]
> 0,id=117f000001000117857482300000027450001
> 0,RestartStyleHint=1
> 0,Priority=40
> 0,Program=gnome-volume-manager
> 0,CurrentDirectory=/home/olivares
> 0,CloneCommand=gnome-volume-manager --sm-config-prefix
> /gnome-volume-manager-lEfD7z/
> 0,RestartCommand=gnome-volume-manager
> --sm-config-prefix /gnome-volume-manager-lEfD7z/
> --sm-client-id 117f000001000117857482300000027450001
> --screen 0
> 1,id=117f000001000117857482300000027450000
> 1,RestartStyleHint=2
> 1,Priority=40
> 1,Program=gnome-panel
> 1,CurrentDirectory=/home/olivares
> 1,CloneCommand=gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix
> /gnome-panel-mNnIZB/
> 1,RestartCommand=gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix
> /gnome-panel-mNnIZB/ --sm-client-id
> 117f000001000117857482300000027450000 --screen 0
> 2,id=117f000001000117857482300000027450002
> 2,RestartStyleHint=2
> 2,Priority=40
> 2,Program=nautilus
> 2,CurrentDirectory=/home/olivares
> 2,CloneCommand=nautilus --sm-config-prefix
> /nautilus-zxTp1z/
> 2,RestartCommand=nautilus --sm-config-prefix
> /nautilus-zxTp1z/ --sm-client-id
> 117f000001000117857482300000027450002 --screen 0
> 3,id=117f000001000117857482300000027450003
> 3,RestartStyleHint=2
> 3,Priority=20
> 3,Program=metacity
> 3,CurrentDirectory=/home/olivares
> 3,DiscardCommand=rm -f
> /home/olivares/.metacity/sessions/1178631464-2862-1754129126.ms
>
> 3,CloneCommand=metacity
> 3,RestartCommand=metacity --sm-save-file
> 1178631464-2862-1754129126.ms
> 4,id=117f000001000117857482600000027450004
> 4,Program=gnome-power-manager
> 4,CurrentDirectory=/home/olivares
> 4,CloneCommand=gnome-power-manager --sm-config-prefix
> /gnome-power-manager-tQFKdA/
> 4,RestartCommand=gnome-power-manager
> --sm-config-prefix /gnome-power-manager-tQFKdA/
> --sm-client-id 117f000001000117857482600000027450004
> --screen 0
> 5,id=117f000001000117857483000000027450006
> 5,Program=gkrellm
> 5,CloneCommand=gkrellm
> 5,RestartCommand=gkrellm --sm-client-id
> 117f000001000117857483000000027450006
> 6,id=117f000001000117857482600000027450005
> 6,RestartStyleHint=2
> 6,Priority=60
> 6,Program=pam-panel-icon
> 6,CurrentDirectory=/home/olivares
> 6,CloneCommand=/usr/bin/pam-panel-icon
> 6,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/pam-panel-icon
> --sm-client-id 117f000001000117857482600000027450005
> 6,Environment=
> 7,RestartCommand=bluetooth-applet
> 8,RestartCommand=beagled
> 9,RestartCommand=nm-applet --sm-disable
> 10,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/system-config-printer-applet
>
> 11,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/sealert
> 12,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/puplet
> num_clients=13
> [olivares at localhost .gnome2]$
>
> Is that the culprit of my troubles?
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
>
>
>
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