Mark, Thanks for the links to the e-mails. You have given me a great many clues to follow up on, which I will do tomorrow or the next day. Aside: I am also a member of PLUG -- except my PLUG is the Portland Linux Unix Group, aka the Portland Linux Users Group. We are an amorphous assemblage of people, but there are ~600 people subscribed to our e-list, including people from all over the world. Our perennially out of date web site is: http://www.pdxlinux.org/ It is fun to run into another PLUGger. :) On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:23:34 -0700 Mark Phillips <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dijo: > John, > > I had a similar situation a while back, but with my 32 bit Debian testing. > Not sure if any if my investigations will help, but here are two email > threads that may give you some direction. > > http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20090817.130411.d7e52ab0.en.html > > http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20090621.001933.dc58f1d7.en.html > > Sorry, it is late here and I have to be gone early in the am, or I would > have done a better job of summarizing the information for you.... > > Mark > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:26 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > I have a brand new installation of Debian testing amd64. After spending > > a day and a half installing apps and configuring stuff, I rebooted. > > After logging in I had no window manager and no gnome panel. > > > > Faced with a blank screen, I can open a terminal and start them both > > manually, and then everything is fine. > > > > I created a new user. Logging in as the new user I have the window > > manager and gnome panel. Conclusion: The problem is somewhere in my > > config files. > > > > I copied my .gnome2, .gnome2_private and .gconf files to the new user's > > home folder, then logged back in as the new user. The new user still > > has metacity and gnome-panel. I also deleted > > my .gnome2, .gnome2_private and .gconf files so they would be recreated > > on logging in. They were recreated as expected, but I still had no > > metacity or gnome-panel. Conclusion: The problem is somewhere in my > > configuration, but not in .gconf, .gnome2 or .gnome2_private. > > > > Using Synaptic I did a complete removal of gnome-panel and metacity and > > all their dependencies and related files. Then I reinstalled them. > > After logging out and back in again I still have no metacity or > > gnome-panel. > > > > I have spent hours googling trying to figure out exactly what script or > > config file launches metacity and gnome-panel after a user logs in. > > That information must be a state secret. > > > > [Frustration_Mode:on] > > I sure hope someone can offer some suggestions. Else I'll have no > > choice but to give up on Gnome and go to KDE or something else. I just > > can't spend the rest of my life trying to fix Gnome. > > [Frustration_mode:off] > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-list mailing list > > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
