Quoting Chris Jones:
> That sounds rather suspicious: Just clicking on Preferences causing a
> crash is something that everybody would spot right away. It's not like
> some hidden option in some obscure dialog that hardly anybody uses. Did
> you google or search bug reports re: this crash? May hav
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:45:45 -0500
Chris Jones dijo:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:22:51PM EST, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:05:43 -0500
> > Chris Jones dijo:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:23:16PM EST, Rob Owens wrote:
>
> [..] Trimming useful details re; the insta
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:22:51PM EST, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:05:43 -0500
> Chris Jones dijo:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:23:16PM EST, Rob Owens wrote:
[..] Trimming useful details re; the install - all sensible choices
I'm glad you went to the trouble of descri
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:05:43 -0500
Chris Jones dijo:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:23:16PM EST, Rob Owens wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > Somebody else mentioned it already, but I'll second it: it is important
> > to remove/rename the .gnome, .gconf, etc. files while not logged into
> > Gnome. In my exp
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:23:16PM EST, Rob Owens wrote:
[..]
> Somebody else mentioned it already, but I'll second it: it is important
> to remove/rename the .gnome, .gconf, etc. files while not logged into
> Gnome. In my experience they are written at logout from your Gnome
> session, so your
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:13:14PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:10:06 -0500
> Rob Owens dijo:
>
> > In most window managers that I've used, Alt-F2 will open a "run" dialog
> > box. Type into that "gnome-terminal".
> >
> > Also, you can delete your .gnome* and .gconf*
On 09-11-23 23:13:14, John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
> Conclusion: The problem is somewhere in my configuration files, but
> not in .gconf, .gnome2 or .gnome2_private.
...
What about .gconfd/ and .gnome/? (And all the other dot-files.)
Have you looked at ~/.xsession-errors? (It gets made anew e
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:13:14PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[... huge snip of history of metacity & gnome panel faiilng to start
... ]
> Tony suggested polluting my new user alter ego with the gnome
> configuration files from my regular self. I started by just
> renaming .gconf, .gnome2 and
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:13:14PM EST, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:10:06 -0500
> Rob Owens dijo:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:14:23PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[..]
I just noticed this thread, so please ignore if you have already been
through this.
> Tony sugge
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:10:06 -0500
Rob Owens dijo:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:14:23PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:50:52 -0800
> > John Jason Jordan dijo:
> >
> > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:53:56 -0500
> > > Tony Nelson dijo:
> > >
> > > > On 09-11-23 13:31:14, J
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:14:23PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:50:52 -0800
> John Jason Jordan dijo:
>
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:53:56 -0500
> > Tony Nelson dijo:
> >
> > > On 09-11-23 13:31:14, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > 1) How can I fix Gnome? Wh
I see you've made progress elsewhere in this thread, so just a couple
of points below...
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:36:42PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:08 -0800
> Andrew Sackville-West dijo:
[...]
>
> > I'm wondering if you're somehow changing the default selectio
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:50:52 -0800
John Jason Jordan dijo:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:53:56 -0500
> Tony Nelson dijo:
>
> > On 09-11-23 13:31:14, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > ...
> > > 1) How can I fix Gnome? What part of the configuration starts
> > > metacity and gnome-panel when the user log
On 09-11-23 15:50:52, John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
> The only thing I can think of is that Nautilus has a bug where
> clicking on Preferences crashes it, so I used gconf-editor to change
> the way Nautilus works. I could go back and set Nautilus to defaults
> (I think there is an option somewher
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:53:56 -0500
Tony Nelson dijo:
> On 09-11-23 13:31:14, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> ...
> > 1) How can I fix Gnome? What part of the configuration starts
> > metacity and gnome-panel when the user logs in? Note that I'll have
> > to do this manually from XFCE, because I can
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:08 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West dijo:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > couple problems left to resolve. Then I decided to reboot. And then it
> > happened again - no metacity or gnome panel. Only this time I couldn't
> > right-clic
On 09-11-23 13:31:14, John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
> 1) How can I fix Gnome? What part of the configuration starts
> metacity and gnome-panel when the user logs in? Note that I'll have
> to do this manually from XFCE, because I can't even get a terminal
> running in Gnome.
Try creating a new u
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[...]
> That day arrived a few days ago. I decided start over from scratch. I
> used the netinst CD and reinstalled completely, reformatting the new
> disk. Until yesterday afternoon I spent my time installing and
> configuring as
About a month ago I installed testing amd64 on a brand new hard disk
for my Thinkpad, planning on migrating from Jaunty to Debian. I kept
my old Jaunty hard disk untouched. I used the Jaunty disk as a source
of config files as I installed the applications I need, plus I wanted
it available just in
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