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lafayette

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From: Italy

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 58

Gnome 2.28 won't load first time

hi,
I'm experiencing a strange problem as I investigate trying to have a working Gnome on my Arch.
I boot in gdm through inittab, and when i login for first time, desktop seem to load but gnome-panel not, and top shows activity of dbus and gvfs (maybe looping as I reported in older posts).
Then I kill gnome-session, back to gdm, login again and voila, it works.

Any idea? I'm stuck on this since weeks...

Last edited by lafayette (2010-05-14 18:54:04)

lafayette

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 58

Re: Gnome 2.28 won't load first time

Further evidences:
first time, GDM reports uncorrect timezone (+2 hours), while killing gnome-session and going back to gdm will show correct time. Seems like something is still not being loaded at first login...

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: Gnome 2.28 won't load first time

First of all, GNOME 2.30 came out.

Secondly, what is in your inittab?

lafayette

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From: Italy

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 58

Re: Gnome 2.28 won't load first time

Sorry, I got badly confused, I'm using Gnome 2.30 (with 2.28 I hadn't any problems). I just ran a "pacman -Syu", just in case.

$ cat /etc/inittab
#
# /etc/inittab
#

#  Runlevels:
#    0    Halt
#    1(S)    Single-user
#    2    Not used
#    3    Multi-user
#    4    Not used
#    5    X11
#    6    Reboot

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!

id:5:initdefault:

rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p

# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 linux

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

# End of file

It's getting even harder to log into Gnome, as system often freezes while in gdm login screen. I'd tend to exclude hw problems, livecds of other distros and memory tests did not report any problem.

MODs: title of topic can be updated to Gnome 2.30?