gnome-panel startup problem (NOT /tmp/.ICE-unix )

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:30 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:29:23 -0500
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 01:02 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm "gnome-newbie" so please don't shoot to hard.
> > > 
> > > On a newly installed 5.3-STABLE with updated ports tree I've installed
> > > gnome2 a few days ago, hoping is a little bit less resource-hungry
> > > compared with kde.
> > > 
> > > Today, finding some time to play, I've log-in into gnome and enabled the
> > > accessibility module (gnopernicus ?) plus added a few applets (?) (the
> > > system monitor and a few others in the bottom bar). 
> > > 
> > > After logout when I login now I get a box saying: " I've detected a
> > > panel already running and will now exit" - the result being no menu bar,
> > > no bottom bar and no shortcuts (ALT+F1, Alt+F2..) working.
> > > 
> > > I've tried to remove gnome config files from my home dir (see below, I
> > > don't think I've missed any, but..) with no good result.
> > > 
> > > Please give me some (doc) pointer on what to do.
> > 
> > This might very well be related to gnopernicus.  I don't think it's
> > received much testing on FreeBSD.  Did you enable gnopernicus each time
> > you started GNOME on a fresh account?
> 
> I did it just onece and it seems to be enough, as problem is that I
> cannot get GNOME to start normally. I didn't try it on another user
> account, but I'll do it. Still I don't understand: is this not a per
> user setting and then why would it be starting up after I've deleted all
> . files?
> 
> > > itetcu at zetha >-SSH-> /home/itetcu [0:53:28] 1
> > >  > ll -a
> > > total 1652
> > > drwxr-xr-x   7 itetcu  wheel     1024 Jan  7 00:40 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel      512 Dec 31 19:23 ..
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel      767 Dec 31 19:23 .cshrc
> > > -rw-------   1 itetcu  wheel     1230 Jan  6 22:42 .history
> > > drwx------   2 itetcu  wheel      512 Jan  3 17:22 .links
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel      248 Dec 31 19:23 .login
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel      158 Dec 31 19:23 .login_conf
> > > -rw-------   1 itetcu  wheel      373 Dec 31 19:23 .mail_aliases
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel      331 Dec 31 19:23 .mailrc
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel      797 Dec 31 19:23 .profile
> > > -rw-------   1 itetcu  wheel      276 Dec 31 19:23 .rhosts
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel      975 Dec 31 19:23 .shrc
> > > drwxr-xr-x   2 itetcu  wheel      512 Jan  6 17:15 .ssh
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel       29 Jan  3 17:22 .xinitrc
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel    10739 Jan  3 18:16 .xscreensaver
> > > drwxr-xr-x   2 itetcu  wheel      512 Jan  3 17:26 Desktop
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel     3473 Jan  3 17:34 XF86Config
> > > drwxr-xr-x  18 root    wheel     1024 Jan  7 00:37 _cccache
> > > -rw-------   1 itetcu  wheel        1 Jan  5 16:36 dead.letter
> > > -rw-r--r--   1 itetcu  wheel        0 Jan  7 00:40 gol
> > > drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel      512 Dec 31 19:46 kernels
> > > -rw-------   1 itetcu  wheel  1613824 Jan  6 22:36 srcore.core
> > 
> > This core file looks interesting. That's from gnopernicus.  Rebuilding
> > gnopernicus with debugging symbols, then running the core through gdb
> > might give us an idea as to why srconf is crashing.
> 
> OK, after I'm finished with OpenOffice. For now all I can see is signal
> 10 and nothing useful:
> #0  0x08055020 in ?? ()
> #1  0x0806a015 in ?? ()
> ..... etc
> 
> > You can also try adding one applet/feature at a time, and see which one
> > causes the panel problems.  Such problems are not common which is why
> > I'm thinking it's related to gnopernicus.
> 
> It might be, but right now I cannot add nothing, because I don't get
> those nice bars to be able to click on them and add / remove.
> I've renamed gnopernicus and startx but it the same.

Not sure what to tell you.  GNOME on a clean account starts just fine
for me.  I use GDM, but startx with:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session

Should also work.  You may want to verify the permissions on /tmp
and /var/tmp are 1777.  Sometimes invalid permissions can causes GNOME
to choke since it can't create the ORBit temp files.

Joe

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