Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge >> -uDNav world) exhibits every one of the problems that you had. At >> least you can take solace in the fact that you're not alone. >> >> > > I really need some gnome apps (especially gnucash for my checking acct > and evolution for my schedule). I have plenty of data backups but no > backup machine. A reinstall is possible, but of course painful. I > could start > > emerge -e world > > I would just like some agreement that this is not likely to make > things worse. Currently with emacs and firefox, I can read/send mail, > and prepare and view my (html) class notes. So I do have something to > lose. > > Hopefully someone will give us some help; this group is very good for > that. > > allan > My experience was similar to yours. I found that I had to turn off the option that saves your session when you log out, and then delete the file ~/.gnome2/session. After this, my new session would open up OK and the window manager would start working. I have no idea what is causing the problem, but it sure doesn't like something that is being written to the session file.
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