gnome-panel startup problem (NOT /tmp/.ICE-unix )

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 03:22:28 -0500
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

 [ .. ]
 
> > It might be, but right now I cannot add nothing, because I don't get
> > those nice bars to be able to click on them and add / remove.
> > I've renamed gnopernicus and startx but it the same.
> 
> Not sure what to tell you.  GNOME on a clean account starts just fine
> for me.  I use GDM, but startx with:
> 
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session
> 
> Should also work.  You may want to verify the permissions on /tmp
> and /var/tmp are 1777.  Sometimes invalid permissions can causes GNOME
> to choke since it can't create the ORBit temp files.

I'll check when I get back to have physical access, which will happen
today or tomorrow.

Thanks,


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