On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:59:14 -0700 JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> dijo: > On 08/29/2009 07:44 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:I have Jaunty x86_64 on a Thinkpad T61. Jaunty is fully up to date, all > updates are applied. > > Everything has always been rock solid until about 4 weeks ago. However, > suspend has never worked satisfactorily - I can go into suspend, but > cannot restore. Knowing this, I ignored it. I don't really need suspend > anyway. But about 4 weeks ago I tried it again for the first time in > months. Sure enough, I could not restore. So I used the power button > and restarted, because that was my only option. > > When Ubuntu came back up my bluetooth mouse was not working. I tried > everything but could not get it to work. However, bluetooth was working > because I could connect to my phone. And hcitool found the mouse, and > the cc switch executed without error. A local Linux guru suggested that > if bluetooth was working but the mouse was not, then the problem had to > be in X. That made sense, so I switched from the nv driver to the > proprietary nVidia driver and rebooted. When Ubuntu came back up the > mouse was working. > > The mouse continued to work until a couple days ago when it quit again. > Switching video drivers did not repair the problem. > > I now suspect that something is messed up in Gnome. I say this because: > > 1) My desktop font (Sans 9 pt) is messed up - some numerals appear in a > slightly smaller point size. And the line spacing is too wide. And if I > type something in a dialog box the text jumps down so the bottom half > of the letters is hidden. > > 2) I am getting crashes in Firefox and other applications several times > a day. The Firefox crashes occur when clicking on a link or entering a > search string in a Google dialog box. Other applications crash at > random - that is, I cannot figure out a pattern. > > 3) The computer is locking up about once every couple of days. Twice it > happened when typing text into a Google search box; other times it has > happened randomly - I cannot see any pattern. > > I should add that reinstalling Jaunty is not a good option. I have many > programs installed that took a lot of tweaking to get them to work, > tweaks which I don't even remember. These are specialized applications > for use in linguistics. Yes, some day I will buy a new computer and > probably do a fresh install. I just want to avoid it if at all possible. > > It may not be Gnome, but I need a clear acquittal because at this point > Gnome is my top suspect. I want to reinstall Gnome, but I cannot figure > out how to do so. I'm sure Gnome consists of several modules, but what > are they? And what will happen if I try to do it when the GUI is > running? Should I do it from the command line in Recovery Mode? > > Thanks in advance for answers and any other suggestions and advice. > Hi John, > I have one small suggestion. > > Can you use the user management gui to create a new user > and login as that user. Se eif the mouse works. > If so, the problem may be in your settings in these dirs: > .gnome/ > .gnome2/ > .gnome2_private/ > > I do not know which one. As it turns out I already had an alternate user that I set up a long time ago. I created the user account so I would have some way to log in in case something happened to my own login account. I rebooted completely, then logged in as my alternate user. The desktop fonts were still messed up. And typing something in a Google search box in Firefox would crash Firefox or lock up the computer, just as it does for me. I have also switched to other fonts in System > Preferences > Appearance. They all display with the same weirdness as Sans that I was using before, and I can still lock up the computer or crash Firefox. Note that Firefox is not the only app that crashes. I have other apps crash and/or lock up the computer as well. I use Firefox as an example because typing something in a Google search box will do it about one time out of ten. The computer has nVidia Quadro 140M video, and I have switched to/from the open source and the proprietary drivers, but it makes no difference. I also installed kubuntu-desktop, rebooted, and logged into KDE. Same problems. Therefore, I conclude that the problem is not specifically in Gnome. It must have something to do with screen display, but I can't figure out what. Thanks for the suggestion. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
