On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:09:33PM -0800, Michael O'Keefe wrote: > >>>>>>I've never had this happen before. For some reason on my laptop, the > >>>>>>gnome-terminal program has decided not to work. It loads the frame, > >>>>>>tries for a while, and then stops responding. xterm works just fine. > >> > >>If it's just gnome programs, then I find it's often the communication > >>system for Gnome has gone ka-ka > >> > >>I think they talk over a socket in /tmp somewhere.... ??? > > > >And I should look for this and delete it? > > If it is this, then it's prolly been deleted, that would be what's > stopping the Gnome components from communicating > > I think it's called Orbit ? > /tmp/orbit-<username>/... >
I finally 1. deleted myself as a user 2. deleted everything I owned in /tmp 3. added me back 4. started X anew. Now I'm going to recover my useful files. Sometimes this stuff gags me 8-P -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 Tcl/Tk Enthusiast -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
