FC6 upgrade to FC7 - blank desktop
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sat Jun 9 17:32:33 UTC 2007
Todd Zullinger writes:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> I upgraded FC6 to FC7. I boot, login from gdm, and get…
>>
>> … a complete blank desktop, with just the new background picture.
>> Nothing starts.
>
> Shouldn't your old background get used?
>
>> No errors in X's log files. X comes up fine and initializes, but
>> the session does not start.
>
> Just to check, is there anything in ~/.xsession-errors?
>
> Do you have a ~/.xsession or ~/.Xclients script that starts your
> session or are you just using the default?
>
>> Tried removing all .gnome* and .gconf* files from my home directory
>> -- made no difference.
>
> You probably already tried, but does a new user account work properly
> at least?
A new account works.
Now, I've figured out that if: after starting X in the old account, I look
at the process table, I see a crapload of processes hanging on a connect to
/tmp/.esd/socket. If I kill the esd process, the desktop comes out. Panels
and a whole of other stuff is still screwed up, but at least the desktop
comes up.
In a freshly-created account, the desktop comes up fine.
Now, if I take the existing account, rename the home directory, create a
blank new home directory in its place, log in, and try to start X, it still
hangs in esd!
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