Hello, I use Gnome almost exclusively. I usually manage to solve my problems but in this case, I'm stuck. On my other computer (athlon xp 2200+, 512MB RAM) running Slackware 10, Gnome started normally but I had to wait a long time (~5 min?) between hitting the logoff button and the prompt appearing. This made me use the Dropline Gnome packages for slackware (two consecutive versions, latest including Gnome 2.8) under which I had the exact same problem. At this point I was very frustrated and decided to switch to Gentoo instead (note that I was an exclusive Slackware user since 1995). Unfortunately, I had even more problems under Gentoo. Gnome started but after showing the splash screen it would stop for a very long time. The problem persists after using the "nv" instead of the "nvidia" drivers, after a kernel upgrade (2.6.8, 2.6.9 and 2.6.10) and when I run without sound (alsa modules not loaded). I have not tried disabling the network (eth0 network with static IP, nothing fancy). The computer does not have any USB devices, scanners, printers. Note that plain window managers start just fine (Blackbox, Windowmaker) and the system casually reaches >20 days uptime as an ftp/ssh server. My questions are: a) How can I debug Gnome loading? Is there any way to know WHICH process blocks (gconfd? bonobo-something? gnome-keyring-daemon? metacity?) and WHY? Is there a special log file? Is there a special debug mode? b) I have tried running Gnome as another user without pre-existing preferences. I have also tried removing all gnome-related secret directories (.gnome2 etc). Is there any global preference setting that may be responsible? c) Besides the minimalist "man gnome", are there any documents that might help? I don't need documents explaining "howto use the mouse" or esoteric C programming advice. Some stuff for the frustrated sysadmin would be most interesting. Thanks!! P. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
