Re: Gnome start: stalling at Metacity

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:17:41PM -0600, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> krieg stanz wrote:
> 
> > How can I troubleshoot this? Where can I look for
> > details as to the "why" of this, and how can I fix it?
> 
> It sounds like you may have a problem with a saved session.
> Try mv ~/.metacity ~/.metacity.bak
> 
> and restart gnome.

If that works, please mail me the ~/.metacity.bak that caused the
problem, or file it in bugzilla.

> You may also try the same operation with other ~/.gnome* and ~/.gconf 
> directories, one at a time, to try and track down which config directory 
> contains the problematic setting.
> 

Ditto.

Another debug trick is to put "strace -o /tmp/debug-output -f
gnome-session" in ~/.Xclients, chmod +x .Xclients, and 
see what's at the end of /tmp/debug-output during the hang.

Havoc



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