Thus spake Randy Barlow on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:31:20PM CDT > Seems like this should have been sent to the gentoo-whining list (i.e., > /dev/null)
Randy, I appreciate your humor. I really do! But I _do_ run a small home business (web hosting for artists and other small businesses) and when this sort of thing happens, I don't get to take care of my (Linux) servers, my customers, or my family, and I don't make a living. I'm really, truly, looking for advice here from people who know Gnome. If I sound a bit frustrated, it's from the extended effort of really, honestly, trying to have FUN rebuilding software that's out of sync with itself, playing with programs that crash with laconic errors - losing hours of work and access to important information that I need for my business. Please bear with me and help if you can, and please don't send me to /dev/null. It's dark and lonely there! Donnie, anyone with some Gnome experience, know how to get out of this one? ... and I tried subscribing to gentoo-whining but I never got any confirmation requests from the list server. > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Well, here we go again! > > > > After a _massive_ update of software on my desktop system I'm now running > > gnome > > 2.14. Gnome is my dm of preference, and I've spent a great deal of time > > configuring a lot of panels to make everything work the way I want it to, > > with > > custom icons and shortcuts to frequently used applications, some of them > > with > > pretty complex invocations. > > > > Now, after the upgrade, I log in and get an error box titled "Error" (no > > app > > spec'd) with the note "I've detected a panel aready running, and will now > > exit." I kill this and about 9 others follow which must be dismissed in > > turn, > > doubtless one for each of the close to a dozen panels I previously had on > > my > > desktop. > > > > Never do see a panel, and when I'm done dismissing these error boxes, there > > are > > none to be seen. There is no way visible to add a panel, or to recover my > > old > > ones, or even to exit Gnome gracefully. Ctl-Alt-Backspace is what I have > > to > > use. > > > > It's enough to make a fellow go out and buy a Mac! Or maybe switch to > > Ubuntu. > > > > Does anyone know how I can recover from this? Or will I just need to move > > my > > ~/.gnome to ~/.gnome-old, dig through it for the old command invocations, > > and > > let Gnome rebuild everything for me from scratch. If so, it'll be the 3rd > > or > > 4th time I've had to do this. Every time it takes a couple of days out of > > my > > work schedule. > > > > I really love Linux. One of these years, before I go to the Great Bit > > Bucket > > in the Sky, I hope that it's ready for desktop use :-) > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | -- [email protected] mailing list
