Re: Weird Flashing Behavior

[Derek Di Matteo <derek_dimatteo skillcheck com>]

Hello Al and others,

By remarkable coincidence I was having the same problem this morning
that you describe (flashing gmc and desktop icons, but other things run
fine).  I read the thread, and tried to delete the ~/.gnome directory
(rm -r .gnome), but that did not fix the problem.  Nor was I able to
kill gmc process, since, as you described, it kept dying and restarting
with a new pid.  So, I followed the advice of getting a new rpm, and it
worked! Thank goodness.

Details:
I am running RH6.0 on Pentium 133.
downloaded the gmc and mc rpms and did 
rpm -U <package-name>
you need to do the mc package first, then the gmc one.

Everything works now.

Incidentally, I am accessing the server from my Win95 machine using
VNC.  Not sure if that played any role in this or not...

HTH anyone else...

Derek Di Matteo


"Gaspar, Al" wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> 
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