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Joffer

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 69

gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Suddenly gnome doesn't want to start when I run startx ("exec gnome-session" in .xinitrc). All I get is a black screen with the mouse cursor. From there I only have CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE as an option. startxfce4 works fine (i'm using it now..). I don't get any errormsg from startx either. I've tried to delete the .gnome2* folders.. no help.

Any suggestions, log files to look in etc?

I have no (EE) in the latest Xorg.log file, nor any (WW) to be woried about.

_Gandalf_

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 735

Re: gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Have you restarted ?? if not try to... there may be some undeleted (for some reason) lock files...

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Joffer

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 69

Re: gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Yes I have. I've also rebooted and tried to upgrade system. I'm had to install  xfce4 so I could get X again...

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Yay for you? you should play with xfce for awhile and ask yourself, what do i need from gnome?

Edit/. you should use xfce-svn from shadowhands repo, add this to your /etc/pacman.conf

[shadowhand]
Server = http://arch.os-zen.net/pkg/shadowhand

Joffer

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 69

Re: gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Droog - that may be so, but I hate to not know why gnome boorks on me. Whats the different with xfce4 in arch repo and xfce-svn?

Also, if I start a program like totem (which was installed during gnome installation), it doesn't display for ages. I can try to start it, and it goes over 10 minutes before it starts/displays

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Droog - that may be so, but I hate to not know why gnome boorks on me. Whats the different with xfce4 in arch repo and xfce-svn?

XFCE-svn is the development version (svn = subversion) - the one in the repo is the last release.

Joffer

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 69

Re: gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Ok. I guess since xfce-svn is recommended, it's not very alpha/beta software?

whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: gnome hangs, xfce4 works :(

Ok. I guess since xfce-svn is recommended, it's not very alpha/beta software?

Not what I have heard. Many are running it.

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