Re: Gnome on SunBlade 100

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Steven Ritenour wrote:

> A second problem I have is logging on to
>my workstation as root, under CDE I have no problems, but Gnome just kicks me
>off and redisplays the logon screen.  Any assistance on either of these issue
>will be greatly appreciated.

If you have a .xinitrc or .xsession file in root's home directory,
getting rid of those sometimes does the trick.

Also see below, from Sun's GNOME 2.0 Beta FAQ:


Problem

How can I fix general GNOME 2.0 Beta 1 desktop problems such as the
following: 

       GNOME login never gets past the black screen.

       Panels do not respond to my input. 

       Icons do not display correctly. 

       Panels do not appear. 

Solution

Perform the following steps: 

     1.Remove the following configuration preference files and
directories:

       $HOME/.esd_auth
       $HOME/.gconf
       $HOME/.gconfd
       $HOME/.gnome
       $HOME/.gnome-desktop
       $HOME/.gnome2
       $HOME/.gnome2-private
       $HOME/.metacity
       $HOME/.nautilus
       $HOME/.themes
       $HOME/.thumbnails
       $HOME/.xscreensaver

     2.Make sure that you do not have previous versions of GNOME
       listed before /opt/gnome-2.0/lib in your
       LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

     3.Kill the gconfd-2 process. 

     4.Run the command: bonobo-slay.

     5.Try to log in again.


Cheeri,
Calum.

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