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Re: Now GNOME won't start up even *with* E!

Try deleting all of ~/.gnome and run startx again.

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, James Ramsey wrote:

> I installed E so that gnome-session would start (since this
> WM-independent desktop seemed to insist on having that particular WM
> to start with) only to find that GNOME wouldn't start even *with* E.
> After typing 'startx' the usual grey X screen lingers for a bit and
> then X quits with the following error message:
> 
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/jjlinux.jwramsey:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4092,tcp/jjlinux.jwramsey:10785
> 
> Priority 00:  Starting     Id = default0
> Priority 00:  Cloning      Id = default0
> Priority 00:  Registering  Id = (null)
> 
> 
> The numbers in that gobbledygook about SESSION_MANAGER and .ICE-unix
> change a bit but the rest is consistent every time I start X. The
> contents of my .Xclients file as I do this are
> 
> exec gnome-session
> 
> Further, I get these funny named files in my .gnome directory, like
> .xsm04158baa, every time I try to start up X with GNOME. Here's the
> contents of this file:
> 
> remove protoname=ICE protodata="" netid=tcp/jjlinux.jwramsey:10791
> authname=MIT-
> MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> remove protoname=XSMP protodata="" netid=tcp/jjlinux.jwramsey:10791
> authname=MIT
> -MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> remove protoname=ICE protodata=""
> netid=local/jjlinux.jwramsey:/tmp/.ICE-unix/41
> 58 authname=MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> remove protoname=XSMP protodata=""
> netid=local/jjlinux.jwramsey:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4
> 158 authname=MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1          
> 
> If someone could tell me what's wrong, I'd love to know.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Marcus Brubaker
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