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

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:30:06 +0200
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at apropo.ro> wrote:

> 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.

Solved, it seems. Some gconfd and bonobo activations process remained
hung unkillable it seems since I've did a kill on them. Reboot and now I
get the panels.

I'll have yet to play with gcopernicus, but that will have to wait the
next week.


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IOnut
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