Gnome Problems
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue May 20 11:06:08 PDT 2003
On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 12:26, Dave Bradshaw wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> This is probably not the place for this but the gnome people have not
> answered.
To whom did you send the email? When?
> Last weekend I upgraded to 4.8 stable, since then every time I or the
> family log out of Gnome we just end up with a black screen as if the
> system has lost contact with the terminal, leaving the system in a
> useless state. This then results in the system having to be powered
> off, though this is sometimes locked and I need to pull the power cord
> out the back. I am running Gnome 1.4. All was working fine prior to the
> upgrade.
How are you logging into GNOME? Are you using gdm or startx?
>
> Has anyone else experienced this and resolved the problem?
No. My GNOME 1.4 -STABLE machine works fine. I use gdm from /etc/ttys
to login to GNOME.
>
> I then thought maybe I should upgrade Gnome to Gnome 2. I followed the
> instructions on the Gnome site with regards to upgrading from 1.4 to 2.
> Though when I run make install form the Gnome2 directory in /usr/ports
> this works fine until it tries to install Nautilus2 and fails with a
> libxml conflict though running portupgrade I get an = sign for both
> libxml and libxml2, so I assume I have the latest versions.
Can you send exact details of this "libxml conflict?"
>
> If anybody is able to help or require more information I can supply them
> with a list of packages installed on my system and the
> nautilus2-config.log that was created.
That and the output of the build would be helpful.
Joe
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Dave.
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