On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:26:02 +0000 Alan Chandler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24/01/12 14:56, Richard wrote: > > Hi > > > > Out of the blue, when I try to login to the shell I get after a few second > > that dreaded something has gone wrong message and to logout. > > Is Gnome3 similar in behaviour to Gnome2 that removing the .gnome files > > will cause them to be recreated on login ? > > Or any other ideas ??? > > TIA > > I started happening to me yesterday. The first time it happened, it was > NOT just after login. I had been working a few hours when all of a > sudden the message you mention popped up and I was logged out. I logged > in again and apart from having to restart stuff I was running I was > working again. > > This morning it happened just after login - but again I just logged in > again and it worked. > > Running Debian SID > Hi Alan I've seen this a few times on both the machines one running wheezy/sid, probably more SID and the laptop running FC16 I think this is a result of some cumulative process, what does make it worse is powering down a machine is suspend mode. Hence the reason I asked recently about suspend/shutdown. I suspect what your seeing is a prelude to getting the same message but not being able to login. As this is on 2 flavours of linux it looks like the finger of blame points at gnome, unless of course someone knows differently. -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] nil carborundum a illegitemis ################################################################################## Ham Call G8JVM . OS Fedora FC16 x86_64 on a Dell Insiron N5030 laptop Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W ( degs mins ) QRV HF + VHF Microwave 23 cms:140W,13 cms:100W,6 cms:10W & 3 cms:5W ################################################################################## -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
