after update gnome would not start

drakosha · 2006-10-15 21:51:24

after and update, when gnome is started (fired from kdm) the splashscreen is stuck on metacity stage.
If i put in my .xinitrc:

exec gnome-session --failsafe

session starts ok. How do i debug non-failsafe start?

mouse256 · 2006-10-16 15:16:59

I had the same problem here using testing with the latest update.
I couldn't even start the failsafe session.
Downgraded back to [current], I couldn't find the problem....

drakosha · 2006-10-17 06:58:58

10x, here's something that resembles solution:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25689

mouse256 · 2006-10-17 07:18:42

After I downgraded back to current, gdm gave a permission error that he couldn't read my home dir. (the gdm from testing didn't gave that problem)
So I noticed that my home dir was owned by root!!, not by myself anymore. I don't know if this also was the problem for gnome from testing, but I had to chmod and chown my homedir again

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#1 2006-10-15 21:51:24

after update gnome would not start

#2 2006-10-16 15:16:59

Re: after update gnome would not start

#3 2006-10-17 06:58:58

Re: after update gnome would not start

#4 2006-10-17 07:18:42

Re: after update gnome would not start

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