On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:23 -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: > Hi, I'm new at this from Windows ["Free, at last; Free, at last! Thank > ..."] > > Running Gnome on Debian 'sarge', kernel 2.4.26 (backport). > Fairly often, if I log in as a normal user and then try RootTerminal or > Synaptic, that require a root password, the dialog box for the password > gets about half painted -- just the background white and gray -- then > everything freezes solid. The system does not respond to mouse or > keyboard and all I can do is hit the Reset button. On the reboot, there > are a bunch of bad iNodes in my /tmp filesystem. > > I've had similar things happen on just user-login, but not nearly as > frequent. There the solution was to boot Single and rename the user's > ".gnome*" files so they would be created fresh. The same sort of thing > helps in this case -- I wipe out any ".gnome*" files in /root and try > again. Usually it helps. And sometimes the problem just seems to go > away. > > Possibly a configuration glitch, but I don't have any idea where to look. I can't help you with the cause of the problem. However when this happens again it may be worth trying ctrl-alt-backspace. This should command the X server to shutdown, bouncing you back to the gdm/kdm login screen. This at least avoids having to reboot the machine.. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
