Strange Gnome Behavior After Rawhide 20080906 update

Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at cox.net
Sun Sep 7 03:17:44 UTC 2008


Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
>> Well, gnome desktop panels and desktop icons did not come up after
>> reboot, just my background and startup programs that have windows on
>> the desktop.
>>
>> Crl-Alt-BS and select gnome/openbox and got everything back and then
>> repeat selecting just gnome and all is well with each restart now.
> 
> Lucky you.
> 
> Here after thursday's (or so) updates I get a blank (no text, most icons
> gone) GDM, loging in blindly (this is the only account here) worked. After
> today's update not even that works, ctrl-alt-BS does nothing, ctrl-alt-DEL
> is broken too. Going through runlevel 3 and to X gives me a background and
> upper/lower blank icon bars. Only the power switch gets me out.

I should have mentioned that I am using up-to-date rawhide except for 
GDM and the ATI drivers.  Had to reverted those last Monday to get X and 
GDM working again.
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Regards,

Old Fart




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