RE: Weird Flashing Behavior

["Gaspar, Al" <gasparedw lrn va gov>]

OK.  I downloaded all of the RPMs from ftp.gnome.org (both the base and the
development) and installed them with `rpm -Uvh *.rpm`.  Everything installed
correctly except for gnumeric*.rpm (it complained that it wasn't in rpm
format).

I deleted my ~/.gnome directory and tried logging in again.  It still
flashed at me.  I looked a little harder at my home directory (ls -a), did
an `rm -rf .gnome*`, and logged in again.  That finally solved the problem.
I suspect I didn't need to do the upgrade to the rpm files, but at least I
have the latest now...  I don't know where the problem was, but it was one
of the other three .gnome* directories.  Thanks for all of the help.

Cheers--

Al
gasparedw@lrn.va.gov   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Federico Mena Quintero [mailto:federico@helixcode.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 7:28 PM
> To: gasparedw@lrn.va.gov
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Weird Flashing Behavior
> 
> 
> >      I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on an Intel box and began using
> >  Gnome.  It has been running fine for several weeks.  Now, 
> I am getting a
> >  very odd behavior.
> >  
> >       When I log into gnome, white cutouts of my icons 
> appear where the
> >  icons would normally be on the left side of my screen and 
> a midnight
> >  commander window opens up in my home directory,  then they all
> >  disappear, and then they appear again.  It just keeps cycling like
> >  that.
> [snip]
> 
> Please upgrade to the latest RPMS and tell us if the problem persists.
> The stock Red Hat Linux 6.1 had a version of MC with an important
> problem at initialization.
> 
>   Federico
>