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cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

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Gnome killed after power outage

While using Gnome, the power to my apartment blinked out. I don't have a UPS, so this caused my computer to shut down.

Upon restarting, all of Gnome's default icons were replaced with the little paper, all of my Applications menu was gone, and only a few options remained on my other menus. I tried running as a different user, and this gave no luck, so it's not configuration. I've tried removing and reinstalling Gnome via Pacman with pacman -R gnome and pacman -S gnome, I've tried replacing the icons by hand. None of this has been successful. I've run fsck.

I've had this happen before on crash; none of these solutions worked and at that point I hadn't tried Ubuntu, so I blew my Arch away to give that a go. I'm hoping I don't have to resort to that again.

All help is appreciated.

Last edited by cookiecaper (2007-09-22 12:31:19)

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

What versions of libx11 and xproto do you use? I think you're using a mix of these two packages where the /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh file is gone, which causes an invalid setting for XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variables.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

Are you using JFS?

cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 199

Re: Gnome killed after power outage

libx11 is 1.1.3-4  and xproto is 7.0.11-1. I have no xorg.sh on my system. : )

And I'm using ext3.

Last edited by cookiecaper (2007-09-23 10:38:34)

byte

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Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

Seems like time for a full fsck. Watch /lost+found.

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cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

fsck doesn't find anything. I've just rerun it from my Puppy Linux LiveCD, and it still finds nothing. /lost+found is empty. : (
Thank you, though.

cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 199

Re: Gnome killed after power outage

I've observed some other strange behaviors, too.

GTK file selectors now show all of my hidden folders, items preceded with a dot. I didn't tell it to do this.

Gnome apps don't recognize any of the icons in /usr/share/pixmaps, although it appears the complete set is still there.

gnome-theme-manager doesn't understand any of my themes, although they are all present in the filesystem.

I hope that helps diagnose the problem further. : )

thayer

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

cookie, by chance were you running Compiz Fusion before this happened?

I just removed all my Compiz Fusion stuff (since I'm back to Openbox/GNOME with Xcompmgr) and my desktop is doing the exact thing as yours--lots of broken icons and my GNOME menu is all but missing. 

So far, I have:
* removed nesl247's repos from pacman.conf
* uninstalled compiz-fusion-git
* removed libx11 (1.1.3-4) found in [testing] (which is the version you are running now)
* installed the stable libx11 (1.1.3-1) found in [extra]

One of the above packages must have left behind some settings that are no longer compatible.

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The Compiz Fusion wiki called for this command to fix the fusion-icon after installation:

gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Could this have anything to do with these problems?

Last edited by thayer.w (2007-09-23 21:15:45)

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mezoko

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

remove your /tmp files, if I'm not mistaken those get removed on shutdown. Some strange shit happens if you got gnome stuff in /tmp

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thayer

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

remove your /tmp files, if I'm not mistaken those get removed on shutdown. Some strange shit happens if you got gnome stuff in /tmp

Thanks for the tip, unfortunately that didn't resolve the situation either.  I stumbled onto another thread here with similar issues:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=279354

After reading through the above thread, I noticed that my ~/.config/menus directory is also empty, although I don't know if it should be or not.  Needless to say, following the fixes posted in that thread did not correct the problem either.

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thayer

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

FIXED. Reinstalling libx11 v1.1.3-4 from [testing] does the trick.  It must be making some irreversible changes the first time it's installed, making downgrades out of the question.

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cookiecaper

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Re: Gnome killed after power outage

Reinstall of libx11 from testing (and automatic removal of libx11-xcb) solved a lot of this as well, but Gnome still isn't completely better; gnome-session never completely starts the environment. It usually spawns a couple gnome-settings-daemon processes, which, along with gnome-session, fight over my CPU, bringing utilization up to 100%.

libx11 reinstall brought back all of my icons and made most of the apps all better, and gnome-panel works fine now in Openbox, so this is pretty good. Thank you all. However, I'd still like to be able to start gnome-session. Any suspicions on what may be causing the erratic behavior of gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-session, in particular?

Thanks everyone for all the help so far, especially thayer.w. : )

Last edited by cookiecaper (2007-09-24 11:24:12)