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Package: gnome-desktop

I really don't know what package to file this bug report under. If I make it to "installation-reports", FJP will just say, "The installer did everything right, so I'm closing this report." which seems a little like the surgeon who said, "The operation was as success. Too bad, the patient died. But that's not my problem!"

I'm picking "gnome-desktop" out of thin air, if only because I don't get this problem with KDE desktop manager. Will somebody who knows, please redirect it to the correct place!

So here's my problem:

The computer in question is an OldWorld PowerMac Apple Macintosh, "Beige G3" tower. This problem only happens on this machine. It does not occur on my G4 test box.

I'd very much appreciate it if somebody else with a beige G3 would try it and let me know if they see the same problem.

I installed using the etch daily netinst CD from December 25th at 04:40 UTC.

The installation process was entirely nominal (modulo the usual magical things I have to do to get it to load using BootX).

However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something having to do with the appearance of the desktop. Things are very slow (as if a process in continually crashing and restarting) and the appearance of the desktop cycles thru a series of subtle but disturbing changes that I'll call "wiggling" for want of a better word.

Finally, after 30 seconds or a minute, I get a pop-up that says

                Question
        The pannel encountered a problem while loading
        "OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet".

        Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
        [Don't delete]          [Delete]

If I click [Don't Delete] it goes back to wiggling, and about 30 seconds later, I get the same popup. If I click [Delete] it goes back to wiggling, but the popup doesn't reappear.

After a couple of minutes of wiggling, I get a popup that says

        There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon
Some things such as themes, sounds, or background settings, may not work correctly.
        
        The Settings Daemon restarted too many times

        The last error message was:
                System Exception:IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0:
                Child process did not give an error message,
                unknown failure occurred.
        
        Gnome will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you login.
                                                [close]

When I click [close] the wiggling stops and everything is (as far as I can tell) normal until I log out
and try to login again.

Anybody got a clue?

Thanks!

Rick



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Version: 0.4.0-1.1

        Hi,

 libvisual 0.4.0-1.1 was uploaded to disable altivec detection, and this
 should workaround the bug, hence I'm closing these bugs.

 (I've opened a separate report to track the altivec problem if we need
 to enable it again.)

  Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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