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martvefun

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 174

[gnome] cannot open any window

Hello,

Since this morning I cannot open any window. Not exactly because if I double-click on a folder on my desktop, nautilus shows up but if I double-click on a text-file, nothing happens.
If I do ALT+F2, a launcher appears but if I try do start any application (gedit, firefox, terminal or even nautilus), I see a notification in the bottom of the screen ("starting gedit...") but it disappear after a few seconds.
If I try from the application menu, same. Same with the administration tools.
In the conky (automatic startup), I see that dropbox (also automatic startup) is running but I don't have the icon in the top right corner.
Only one or two percent of the CPU is used and a few megabits for the RAM

Yesterday I added two line in my ~/.xinitrc to start mpd but as it didn't work (couldn't start gnome) I removed them this morning and now I have that (but it could have been caused by something else I did yesterday)

Fortunately I have ubuntu on another partition but I want my archlinux back

Thank you

edit : it seems that it was an error from my /etc/hosts file

Last edited by martvefun (2010-01-20 17:25:34)

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English is not my native language, sorry for the mistakes
Arch amd64, GNOME, Dell Vostro