Very strange Desktop Behaviour after Rawhide Update

[Kai Thomsen]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:16:06 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:

> Am Fr, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Kai Thomsen um 16:43:
> > If you use GNOME, it could be Nautilus crashing.  It currently does
> > this for me, anyway, and I get a GNOME error dialog box which, when
> > closed, leads into a nasty "crash loop" (due to Nautilus
> > respawning).
> 
> Here it crashes without any message or leaving a note in
> /var/log/messages

I get the behaviour you describe when Nautilus has not been prelinked
yet.  In that case, .xsession-errors contains relocation error messages.

  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107875

> > You need the boot parameter "rhgb" in your grub.conf.
> 
> Thanks for the info. It works again.
> 
> Do you know why rhgb isn't default anymore?

Alexander Larsson wrote on this ML that Anaconda now activates it by
default.  Apparently, package updates don't add this option if "nogui"
is missing.


--Kai