Make sure the loopback interface is up: ifconfig lo if not: ifup lo Christophe
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:12:41PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:24:24AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > My cousin is having problems starting GNOME on his up to date unstable > > > box. He logs in from GDM, and says he never gets past the gnome splash > > > screen. He has given me his X config, contents of .xsession-errors and > > > process list of the "frozen" login. > > Try to start your session with startx from a console. This may help. > > No, he tried that already, with a .xinitrc that calls gnome-session, and > no luck either. > > What Carlos Perell? told me on IRC last night is interesting. From the > logs: > > SESSION_MANAGER=local/neurotico:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5631 > > and > > 266 ? S 0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000 > > SESSION_MANAGER should refer to pid 266, not 5631. > > When I talk to my cousin again, I'll tell him to check that out. I'm > suspecting he has a bad /etc/hosts, or something, too. > > Jordi > -- > Jordi Mallach P?rez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ > GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/ -- Christophe Barb� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch
