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walt <w41ter@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 12/08/2010 04:50 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> Yesterday many gnome-apps were updated to 2.32. |
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>> There is a problem with evolution's addr book, but for me that is minor. |
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>> However, the gnome panel doesn't work. It starts, remains running, |
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>> cannot be killed (even with -9) but does not display the panel. |
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> I agree with Keith, but I would also suggest starting with a completely |
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> clean home directory, just as a test. |
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> The easiest way to do such a test is to create a new "test" user, so you |
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> don't need to risk losing all the existing gnome settings in your regular |
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> home directory. |
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> Create a new "test" user and then log in as "test", and see if you get |
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> the same problem with the gnome panel. My guess is that everything will |
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> work normally, so you'll need to figure out what item in your regular |
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> ~/gnome-related directories is causing the gnome panel to hang. |
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Your guess was right! I looked in .xsession-errors and checked for |
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"failed". |
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I found the following msg many times |
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: |
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cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory |
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Is that a clue? |
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allan |
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