Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

Hmmm this problem recurred after the reinstall, but it's only happened once in five boots. I'm going to gather as much info as I can, keep the bug report open, and add whatever useful info I can to the report. The road I'm going to go down for now is that this may be the result of an interac

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

Actually, Brian's suggestion to reinstall was a good one, and for a reason I wouldn't have expected. I noticed when I started to reinstall that I was using the i386 version instead of the amd64 (consistent with my chip). I'm not sure what direct effect that would have on gnome-shell, but reinstal

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

On Sb, 25 mai 13, 07:00:58, Larry Johnson wrote: > > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the > report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would > be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even really sure whether I > should identify

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Brian wrote: > > A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is > repeatable. > I'll do a reinstall then. I'd really like to track this down. > You'll be using the nouveau driver, then. The controller belongs to the > NV40 family. > >

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

On Sat 25 May 2013 at 07:14:00 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > I'll try a reinstall if no specific problem is identified. I did reinstall > gnome itself with no effect on the problem. A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is repeatable. > The following is my lspci output

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Brian wrote: > > > Considering it is a new install (done by selecting a DE via d-i, we > assume) you have nothing to lose by reinstalling. Also, the video system > may be the culprit. 'lspci' will give you information on it which you > could post here. > > I'll tr

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > And the number of your report is? > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

On Fri 24 May 2013 at 21:19:48 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what > additional info I might need to pull together). > > I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my > install seems to be afflicted with

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

On Vi, 24 mai 13, 21:19:48, Larry Johnson wrote: > I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what > additional info I might need to pull together). > > I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my > install seems to be afflicted with a very old

Re: Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

There is a bug reported. Check this post for a workaround: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=66922&start=0#p382943 Greeting Philip On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:05:36 +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > >> I'm using Debian sid on sever

Re: Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:05:36 +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > I'm using Debian sid on several computers without any problem, but > yesterday I boot one od them, recently updated and I have a lot of > problem with gnome panels. > > I usually had two panels (top and bottom), but when I starte

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:38:07 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a > normal session on my computer, woo hoo! Don't forget the "sticky bit" as Jochen suggested. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

Peter Tenenbaum: > > Never mind. JFGI. True. :) > Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. /tmp usually has the sticky bit set. That makes sure that nobody can delete other peoples' files. J. -- Scientists know what they are talking about. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

Peter Tenenbaum: > > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup ... > mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied Can your user write to /tmp? Google suggests to 'chmod 1777 /tmp'. J. -- I have been manipulated and permanently distorted. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a normal session on my computer, woo hoo! -PT On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum < peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze > desktop computer.

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

...adding: is it possible that some permission was not set correctly when I restored backups (the backups were made via dump command). On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum < peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeez

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:28:11 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze > desktop computer. After the usual thrashing around I have managed to (I > think) recover all my files and configuration information from backup, > get grub insta

Re: problem with gnome-setting-daemon

Em Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:00:17 +0200, Manu escreveu: > This probably reflects a bug in the program. Try reporting it. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04.674-000 SÃo Paulo, SP

FW: RE: Problem with Gnome

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Re: Problem with Gnome

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:58:26PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote: | Hi, | | I am having problems loading Gnome 1.4. I was using KDE prior to my | attemps to install gnome. After I execute the normal "startx" a | Gnome1.4 panel appears with a window that has a picture with GNOME 1.4 | and the messa

Re: Problem with gnome-utils

Cam Ellison wrote: > > I cannot get the 1.4 version of gnome-utils to install. > gnome-utils.postinst has a reference to scrollkeeper-update, thus: > Sorry about this one -- I turned my brain back on, looked for scrollkeeper on the ximian site and installed it -- all is well. Sorry for wasting