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

---Marcus Brubaker <spoon@elpaso.net> wrote:
>
> Try deleting all of ~/.gnome and run startx again.

Tried it. Didn't work.

> 
> 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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> http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon
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