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Thus spake Randy Barlow on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:31:20PM CDT |
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> Seems like this should have been sent to the gentoo-whining list (i.e., |
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> /dev/null) |
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Randy, I appreciate your humor. I really do! But I _do_ run a small home |
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business (web hosting for artists and other small businesses) and when this |
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sort of thing happens, I don't get to take care of my (Linux) servers, my |
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customers, or my family, and I don't make a living. I'm really, truly, looking |
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for advice here from people who know Gnome. If I sound a bit frustrated, it's |
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from the extended effort of really, honestly, trying to have FUN rebuilding |
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software that's out of sync with itself, playing with programs that crash with |
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laconic errors - losing hours of work and access to important information that |
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I need for my business. Please bear with me and help if you can, and please |
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don't send me to /dev/null. It's dark and lonely there! |
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Donnie, anyone with some Gnome experience, know how to get out of this one? |
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... and I tried subscribing to gentoo-whining but I never got any confirmation |
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requests from the list server. |
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> Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > Well, here we go again! |
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> > After a _massive_ update of software on my desktop system I'm now running gnome |
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> > 2.14. Gnome is my dm of preference, and I've spent a great deal of time |
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> > configuring a lot of panels to make everything work the way I want it to, with |
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> > custom icons and shortcuts to frequently used applications, some of them with |
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> > pretty complex invocations. |
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> > Now, after the upgrade, I log in and get an error box titled "Error" (no app |
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> > spec'd) with the note "I've detected a panel aready running, and will now |
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> > exit." I kill this and about 9 others follow which must be dismissed in turn, |
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> > doubtless one for each of the close to a dozen panels I previously had on my |
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> > desktop. |
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> > |
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> > Never do see a panel, and when I'm done dismissing these error boxes, there are |
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> > none to be seen. There is no way visible to add a panel, or to recover my old |
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> > ones, or even to exit Gnome gracefully. Ctl-Alt-Backspace is what I have to |
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> > use. |
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> > It's enough to make a fellow go out and buy a Mac! Or maybe switch to Ubuntu. |
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> > Does anyone know how I can recover from this? Or will I just need to move my |
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> > ~/.gnome to ~/.gnome-old, dig through it for the old command invocations, and |
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> > let Gnome rebuild everything for me from scratch. If so, it'll be the 3rd or |
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> > 4th time I've had to do this. Every time it takes a couple of days out of my |
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> > work schedule. |
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> > I really love Linux. One of these years, before I go to the Great Bit Bucket |
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> > in the Sky, I hope that it's ready for desktop use :-) |
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> > |
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