Re: Fatal error starting Gnome.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

[cross-post trimmed]

On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Rooster wrote:
> 	Compiled GNOME from sources into it's own directory, made all the
> relevant symlinks, search paths etc. Now when I try to start GNOME I just
> get a cryptic message with no core dump or anything. 
> 
> "Giving up on displaying error dialog" (incidentally a /n would be a nice)
> 

This means your program segfaulted, tried to display the segfault dialog,
and segfaulted again in the process, so just gave up. Probably the error
message could be improved but you aren't supposed to see this really...

I assume by "try to start GNOME" you mean you're running gnome-session and 
gnome-session gives this error? 

I would say 99% likely if gnome-session segfaults on startup your
installation is somehow hosed, but of course it could be a bug. 
If you think your installation is OK, then try running gnome-session in
gdb and getting a backtrace for us. Email if you don't know how.

Havoc