gnome startup errors

[Dan Coutu]

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 00:34, Derek Doucette wrote:
> I have somehow broken something in gnome.  Whenever I start X as gnome
> is loading gnome-panel, magicdev, metacity, and nautalis all segfault
> and then sometimes work again.  

I had this happen just a couple days ago after I used Ximian's updater
to install Evolution 1.4 on my system. The problem turned out to be that
for some reason orbit was not getting started. Orbit is the Corba server
that almost all Gnome stuff uses. I was able to determine this by
starting applications from the command line and seeing the error
messages that normally go into the bit bucket when you startup things
from the graphic interface.

I did find that if I logged with Gnome instead of KDE then all worked
correctly. I never fully resolved the issue since I reinstalled Red Hat
yesterday onto a new bigger drive and just migrated my old files off the
old drive.

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Dan Coutu
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