On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 20:51, Wouter Lagerweij wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 16:40, francesco.melo wrote: > > John Johnson wrote: > I have a similar problem. Since updating last sunday, I cannot start > gnome. I've tried moving my .gnome2 tree out of the way, but this has no > effect, and trying another user on the same machine has the same > problem: Starting gnome seems to hang at the point the panel is > started. There seem to be a number of tries to start the panel, before > giving up altogether, and staying on with a blank screen with the busy > cursor. > > I've attached my .xsession-errors, in case someone can make any sense of > it... I got the same problem a few days ago. It was coming from a missing installation of libXft2-2.1-2mdk. Installing it fixed the problem.
Brice
