Gnome 1.4 Woes

[Matt Nelson <mnelson dynatec com>]

Since upgrading my Red Hat 7.1 box to Ximian Gnome 1.4, I have had
a couple of annoying problems with Gnome:

1) My session dies unexpectedly.  This seems to happen when I lock my
screen and go away for some time, typcially more than 1/2 hour.  Upon
return, gdm is sitting there waiting for me to log in.

Here are the temporally-relevant contents of /var/log/messages:

Apr 25 08:26:29 man gnome-name-server[3908]: input condition is: 0x11, exiting
Apr 25 08:26:50 man PAM_pwdb[3063]: (gdm) session closed for user mnelson
Apr 25 08:26:54 man modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
Apr 25 08:26:54 man modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-195
Apr 25 08:26:57 man modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
Apr 25 08:26:57 man modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-195


2) Gnome seems to be confused about what should be on my desktop when I
log in.  Last night was an example:  I closed all programs I was
running, and, to be safe, saved my session.  I then logged out.  This
morning when I logged in, Gnome fired off 9 xterms, the control panel,
gmc, VMWare, and 2 Pine sessions, when it should have just given me an
empty desktop.

Please help!  These are *very* annoying.

-matt

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Matthew Nelson
Dynamics Technology, Inc. 
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