[gentoo-user] Gnome troubles, hangs on boot without much explanation, X shows no mistake.

[dimOK Seletski]

On 3/14/06, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/14/06, dimOK Seletski <drjoms@×××××.com> wrote:
> > hi guys, i have never done any posts before, so i am really
> unexperienced(a
> > maillist virgin? ;) however, i have problem, more than one, like rest of
> > us...
>
> Well, welcome to the list, sorry, but I gotta say, you should post
> stuff with a SUBJECT line regarding your problem, not a reply to the
> automatic welcome message, I guess that's why you got no answers (at
> least none to the list).
>
> >  But problem i would like you to help me with is somehow related to
> gentoo,
> > and particulary to gnome.
> >  I am not good at searching information, but i tryed my best to find
> > anything related to my problem.
> >  The problem is, i use gdm(yeah!!! usually i start it manually, i am too
> > lazy to add it into loading processes) and i try to load my
> gnome(yeaaah!!),
> > but i can't load it(booo!!!!), it simply hangs after i see a window
> which
> > shows progress of gnome being loading(none of icons appear, boo!!!).
> Steps
> > made: upgraded to current version(--sync is 2 days old), upraded to
> > experemental version, upgraded X to current version(2 days old). I have
> > deleted Gnome configuration files from users directory still does not
> > load(boo!!!!), "custom choice" is loading(it looks a lot like clean X
> > enviroment to me), but thats it(it did load before too). No mistakes in
> X
> > output, so i am pretty confident it`s  gnome, any ideas?
> >  In advance thanks for any reply.
> >  P.S. if it is of any help: clocks applet caused problems before major
> > problems started, not major problems, but who knows, may be it is
> somehow
> > related...
> >
>
> Well, Its more a shot in the dark, but have you double checked file
> permissions on your home directory? KDE and Gnome use to crash on me
> because of that, but then I decided to use Fluxbox. Anyway, try chmod
> and chgrp to make your home folder completely YOURS.
>
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> Daniel da Veiga
> Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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> the problem is -  created new user to check if permissions are set
correctly, didnt help, i did delete old config files from home directory,
dint help too, so it is not permissions, unlesess there is some sort of
default gnome session config file, which i need to delete as well...