Gnome desktop does nothing no icons
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu May 24 03:54:50 UTC 2007
----- Original Message ----
From: Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:39:12 PM
Subject: Re: Gnome desktop does nothing no icons
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:13 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:21:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Gnome desktop does nothing no icons
>
>
> --- Cameron Meadors <cmeadors at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> How do I kill esd/alsa?
>
> This is the same laptop for which there is no sound.
> I have trashed the ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2, ~/.gconf
> ~/.gconfd/ and ~/.gnome2_private/ directories in the
> hope that I'll get back gnome, but I have not been
> successful. I created two accounts and have logged in
> to gnome and as root user copied the .gnome*
> directories unto the original account to no avail.
> For the meantime, KDE is working awesome, I just need
> to yum install klaptop to see how much battery time I
> have left.
Have you deleted the user files in /tmp ? I find that I have to
sometimes delete them twice before gnome loads successfully.
No I did not delete the files in /tmp. Apparently GNOME is back. I do not know what did the trick. Will confirm tomorrow as I boot the machine again. I need to work now on sound.
Regards,
Antonio
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