Hello Brian, On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Brian McNeil wrote:
> I haven't been able to launch Gnome on Betas 1-4, or > RC1. KDE works fine. Both Gnome and KDE worked fine > in 8.2 on this system. This is for various install > doesn't do this. My system specs are below. Is this > a Matrox issue? Just a newby trying to help out, I > Epox 7KXA November 13, 2001 bios > AMD 700 slot A processer > Matrox G400Max Dualhead AGP > 2- CTX PL9 crt monitors Your setup is remarkably similar to mine (same mobo, Athlon 600, G400 single head, CTX monitor) and I've experienced the same problem you do. I've seen it twice: once when I installed beta2 over 8.2 and once when I installed RC1 over beta3. Upon launching Gnome2 the system freezes hard. I've looked into this and found that the launch of gnome-settings-daemon is likely the moment that the freeze occurs. Both times however, the problem disappeared and I'm not completely sure what did the trick. The last time I deleted the .gconf* directories in /root and after that it started up fine. This is not a complete explanation because I didn't delete those dirs in my normal user account and there the problem went away as well... Please try deleting the .gconf* dirs and report back if it helped! bye, -- Reinout van Schouwen Artificial Intelligence student email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile phone: +31-6-44360778 GPG public key http://www.cs.vu.nl/~reinout/reinout.asc
