Nope. gnome-panel _is_ installed. I did however notice that I get the message "/dev/dsp: Permission denied" when I try to run "gnome-session --failsafe" from an X session that only has a xterm running (no window manager). Could this be stuffing things up? How can I get around this???
You did add yourself to the audio group properly and I personally don't
know of any other way to add users to groups. However, I don't know your
audio problems are related because you did not tell whether or not
adding yourself to the audio group solved your gnome-session problem.
Adding myself to the audio group didn't help either. When I issue "startx" I get the following messages:
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
SESSION_MANAGER=local/k9:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1445
/dev/dsp: No such device
** (gnome-session:1445): WARNING ** Esound failed to start.
I hope this gives some more clues to you gnome experts. Thanks for any help, Brendan Simon.
