Gnome 2.3.1 frozen, can't load desktop anymore..

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 15:26, Mezz bsdforums.org wrote:
> >On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 09:34, Wade Majors wrote:
> > > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > >>I think I have traced the hanging problems to libbonobo-2.3.1. Doing a
> > > >>`portupgrade -f bonobo-activation` fixed the problems for me. There
> > > >>appears to be some conflict between the new bonobo-activation in
> > > >>libbonobo 2.3 and the old(?) bonobo-activation port.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes.  As of libbonobo-2-3.1, there is no more bonobo-activation port.
> > > > You should remove it.  bonobo-activation is included within libbonobo.
> > >
> > > Okay. I did a `pkg_deinstall bonobo-activation` and `portupgrade -f
> > > libbonobo`, and Gnome hangs on startup again. Is there something else we
> > > need to clean up?
> >
> >That should do it.  Maybe remove ~/.gnome2/session (which fixed a
> >bonobo-activation hang in the past).  However, my GNOME works after
> >similar steps (not removing session).  Where does it hang?
> 
> Well, it's really broke on 5.0.. I already clear the whole Gnome2's dotfiles 
> and still the same problem. I removed bonobo-activation, rebuilt libbonobo 
> and gnome-panel. The gnome-panel just will halt and frozen, it's like you 
> can't do anything on it such as menu and etc, which I can see it on the 
> desktop.

It's working for me on -STABLE with the new bonobo-activation-server.  I
am converting my 2.2 -CURRENT machine to 2.3 to see if I can reproduce
the hangs.

> 
> Anyway, a lot of stuff are depending on bonobo-activation such as AbiWord2, 
> acme and etc. I think, I will have to rebuild the full Gnome 2.3.1 from 
> stratch.. But, I doubt it will fix those problems thought.

Not necessary.  Simply run pkgdb -F, and point all the bonobo-activation
dependencies at libbonobo.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> >Joe
> >
> > >
> > > -Wade
> > >
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