Re: when starting GNOME, message..

[Nils Philippsen <nils wombat dialup fht-esslingen de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:

> "Geocrawler.com" wrote:
> > 
> > This message appears in another virtual terminal:
> > 
> > "** WARNING ** Could not get name service!
> > ** ERROR **: File goad.c: line 606
> > ( real_goad_server_activate): assertion failed:
> > ( name_service != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL)
> > aborting..."
> 
> Hi, I'm new to this list. I use Debian, and I was experiencing
> this problem today. Are you starting up a gnome session or just
> using the panel? I was just using the panel. To fix it I had to
> run gnome-name-service. YMMV.

You both want to run gnome-session (and nothing else btw -- it takes care
of window managers, name-services and the like). It's the "official" way
to run gnome (and gives you session management, too).

Bye,
Nils
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