gnome is dead (kind of) since 2/1/2006 updates

Brian Millett bmillett at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 19:41:25 UTC 2006


On 2/2/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Brian Millett (bmillett at gmail.com) said:
> > I need some good advice on how to debug this problem.
> > I have yum updated rawhide today (2/2/2006) on a x86 toshiba laptop and
> I
> > still have a kind of broken gnome that broke 2/1/2006.
> >
> > What I mean is that as my current user, I try to startx from runlevel 3
> and
> > it goes for a while and then dies and I am back at the command
> prompt.  I
> > can add a new user and login as that user and can startx just fine as a
> new
> > virgin user.  But from my old user, gnome will not start.
> >
> > I do not have any error messages in /var/log/messages nor
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log nor any where else that I can think of.
> >
> > How do I debug this?  Can X be started in a verbose debug mode?
> >
> > I'd like to file a bugzilla, but on what?  System is hosed is not a menu
> > item, nor very helpful.
>
> What happens if you remove ~/.fonts.cache-2?


I CAN SEE!!  Its a miracle!

That was it.  How did you grok that?

Thanks.
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