Gnome2.2 or 4.8 Stable Login logout Problem.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 14:54, Dave Bradshaw wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Since upgrading to 4.8 stable I have had problems logging in and logging
> out.  
> It can take up to three attempts to login, each time I get the message
> your session lasted for less than 10 seconds please check
> .xsession-errors or if I login the first time, then on login out the
> screen either goes black and I am unable to do anything other than power
> cycle the machine, or I get a message about the display being in use so
> this session has been started on another display. 
> These problems did not occur when running 4.7 or 4.8 RC.

This may be symptomatic of missing libraries.  Do you see any ld.so
errors in your .xsession-errors?  Do you see any application crashes
when you run dmesg?

> 
> Looking at .xsession-errors file it is full of these error messages -
> 
> (gnome-panel:305): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_NAME contained
> invalid UTF-8
>  
> Window manager warning: Property _NET_WM_NAME on window 0x14000f4
> contained invalid UTF-8
> Window manager warning: Property _NET_WM_NAME on window 0x14000f4
> contained invalid UTF-8

What do you have set to startup when you login to GNOME?  These messages
may be benign.  For instance, Phoenix has been known to cause this when
browsing certain websites.

> 
> Yesterday I went through the process of upgrading all my ports, then
> running cvsup stable-supfile, building and installing a new kernel, but
> this has not rectified the problem.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas about how this can rectified? 

You can try moving ~/.gnome2/session file out of the way to force GNOME
to start a default session.  Also, answering my above questions can shed
some more light on this.

Joe

> 
> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Dave
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