Re: Grey screen of death?

[Andrew Clausen <clausen alphalink com au>]

David Christensen wrote:

> Hi all, new to the list (and Gnome)....
>
> I've just installed the Gnome 0.99.8 RPMs for Red Hat 5.2, following the
> instructions on the Gnome site.
>
> When I fire up X (using startx, with the line 'exec gnome-sessions' in
> the .xinitrc, as per instructions), I end up staring at the X startup
> screen (grey, with the X cursor).... and it never finishes loading.
> Removing the line from .xinitrc, X starts up fine, into my old WM.

The problem is that gnome-session isn't loading everything.  I've been
having a problemof it sitting for five minutes before loading everything.
Oh - and its a heisenbug!

Can someone give a reference for X session management stuff?  The
gnome-session code
really confused me...

Andrew Clausen