[ale] Gnome doesn't seem to like me.

James Sumners james at sumners.ath.cx
Sun Jan 11 00:56:31 EST 2004


`less /var/log/XFree86.0.log`

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:48:53 -0500
"Adrin" <haswes at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Well,  I have trashed yet another Gnome desktop.
> This time startx will not even start the desktop. It only seems to happen for
> this one user.  I can start it under root and I can make a new user and start
> it.  I do not get any error messages.  The screen blanks to start gnome and
> then I get the prompt back. The last message is "Waiting for X server to
> shutdown."  I have tired deleting the config files in the home directory and
> the /tmp directory.  nothing has worked.  Is there a debug mode or maybe a
> saved session for this user someplace that I could delete?
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
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looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything
technically interesting there. In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money
than it is at making good operating systems.  -- Linus Torvalds



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