Re: How to fix Gnome problems listed herein (Fedora9 64bit)

["Dejan Tolj" <dejan1 gmail com>]

Hi Leslie
Can you break down your problems into bugzilla at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
for tracking purposes, and describe how to reproduce the them.


2008/6/17 Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein videotron ca>:
> My configuration:  disk1 IDE   (Windows XP and PCLINUXOS with multiple
> partitions)
>                                disk2 SATA (UBUNTU with multiple partitions)
>                                 disk3 Fedora9 64bit LVM
> RAM                        3 gig
> CPU                         Dual Core intel D930
> My problem system Gnome2.22.2  with Fedora9 (also my preferred Bootable
> System).
>
> 1)
> a)  When I create a new account (Fedora9 64 bit or even 32bit) with Gnome
> version 2.22.2, the desktop is clear, except for the home directory.
> If user clicks on Places, and clicks on a unmounted disk partition, the
> partition is mounted, and unmounted when user logs off or when an unmount is
> requested.  This is the normal and expected situation.  But when the user
> has sudo ability and does a sudo su command a few times, at every logon all
> the disk partitions are on the desktop, and do not follow the "new user
> logon" functionality.
>
> b) Given the problem of a) above, if one clicks on Places again, and choses
> a drive that is already showing on the desktop, that drive is remounted.
> Then, there is no way for the user to exit or shutdown the system normally.
> The system message appearing is "unable to unmount the partition".
>
> c) there does not appear to be a method to restore to the default action
> where no disk partitions are mounted at logon time.
>
> 2)
> Occasionally, a successful Gnome logon opens up with an empty desktop. The
> drives and everything are mounted, but not visible. The only way to recover
> is to have the user logout and log in again.  Somehow I think it is a timing
> or race condition between Fedora's HAL and Gnome. If HAL is late, gnome
> opens the user desktop empty. Perhaps it is just a Gnome problem.  How can I
> detect this?
>
> 3)
> When the other drives are always showing up on the desktop, and I click on
> Places, for any one of "Home folder, to ... Download", instead of opening
> the directory to show contents, Gnome starts a music program (XMMS). This is
> indicative of a corrupted pointer.  No indication given about how to restore
> the correct pointer(s).
>
> 4)
> Evolution bug.  I cannot copy from an evolution email to an email opened
> with Firefox.  It just does not paste to Firefox. BUT, if I paste to
> OpenOffice or to any text editor, I can then copy from the OpenOffice text
> to the Firefox email (My target is from evolution email to Yahoo.com email)
> Why do I need to pass via an intermediary?
>
> 5)
> Evolution address / Contacts list has room for 4 addresses. The list ends up
> with email addresses that are not available anywhere in the contact
> management window.  Currently, to fix, I unload the contact list, and with
> an editor, I remove the faulty entries, I clear out the entire existing
> contact list and reload my corrected version. (export-->correct-->import).
>
> 6)
> This pertains to the Gnome website.  I have a Canada French multilingual
> keyboard, but my languages are english. When I chose to visit the links for
> documentation, all is in French, with no ability to switch languages. I am
> advised to visit the firefox settings. The settings show English as
> priority.
> (This is a web problem, I don't think it is a Gnome problem).
>
>
> Leslie in Montreal
>
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