[Evolution] Re: [Helix Beta] XFree86 4.0 upgrade

[Patrick Berry <pberry freestyleinteractive com>]

on 5/27/00 4:41 PM, Darrell Pratt at darrellpratt austin rr com wrote:


> I installed helixcode earlier this week and it runs very well.  So, in order
> to get the rage128 support I upgraded to XFree86 4.0 today.  I got the vid
> card, montor, etal working.  I switched the window manage back to sawfish in
> the xinitrc file.  But, when I start up into X, I don't see the helixcode
> splash screen anymore when I start and I am missing the desktop folders,
> botton launcher bar and when I try to save the session it says that it can't
> connect to the session manager.  I suspect that is the main problem, but I'm
> not sure what the session manager runs as or what may have changed in gnome to
> make this all go rather haywire.

X4.0 eh?  Brave soul...

Your .xinitrc file should contain
exec gnome-session

instead of /usr/bin/sawfish

That way a gnome-session will start and fire up sawfish for you.
 
> I tried to be smart and just install helixcode again thinking maybe that would
> just reset things back up again but after the files download, it ends with the
> error of "can not get lock on database" or something to that effect.

Something had a lock on the rpm database files.  Is there still a rogue
helix-update process lying around?

Pat