Re: Strange behavior from gnome apps recently

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I have been having the following really oddball problems since I
> returned from vacation this last Monday (one week off, computer off,
> ...).
>
> I am running gnome 2.16.0 on CentOS 5.0.  A great many of my nautilus
> file associations are gone (doc, rtf, pdf, jpg to name those I'm sure
> of).  Some of the ones I've restored do not work properly (e.g., I
> reset JPGs to open with the image file viewer, but sometimes it
> doesn't advance through a directory the way it used to and sometimes
> it does not).  I had to restore the PDF association (Adobe Acrobat
> Reader 7.0) twice (different directories, I think).
>
> This is really annoying - why did they get lost and why don't they
> work right or stick any more?
>
> Another problem I may have mentioned (can't find a record of so doing)
> here - for some reason I cannot print any graphics files.  Whenever I
> try, the printer chokes and dies.  I have a Minolta PagePro 1100 (NOT
> the 1100L) laser printer, and it won't print anything from the GIMP,
> and it won't print PDFs that are mostly graphics, either from the
> Adcrobat Reader or from the PS files AR produces when I print the file
> to a file.  I have NO trouble at all printing these same files from a
> Windows guest running under VMWare (except that has also crapped out
> on me for the time being - separate issue).  I'm running the pclmono
> driver under CUPS for this printer, which is the recommended driver
> according to CUPS, and it works fine for simple graphics and virtually
> all text files, plus anything printed from SeaMonkey or FireFox.
>
> ?????
>
> mhr
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Your errors are probably more related to something happening with your 
Centos system than with gnome.  You should probably ask on a centos 
list.  They'll be able to help you better (I think).

-Jose