On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:34, Guy Rouillier wrote: > Guy Rouillier wrote: > > (Not quoting anyone so I can pull the discussion back where I need it...) > > > > Ok, so I *should* be okay with ReiserFS on my root partition and ext2 on > > /boot. So how do I go about figuring out why KDE takes forever to start > > up X (and never puts up the desktop icons) and gnome can't seem to shut > > it down (logout five times, eventually (60+ seconds later) I get the > > logout dialog)? I've looked in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/X.log.0 > > (whatever the name is - not on that machine at the moment) and I don't > > see anything obvious.) I have no trouble running X apps once I'm in. > > Well, I seem to have found a way to make it happy. Under KDE, for some > reason, it installed itself with desktop icons unchecked. I checked > this, it immediately showed two icons. Now when I startx into KDE, it > no longer shows the clock icon for a couple minutes. To fix gnome, I > (1) disabled acpi and (2) turned off auto detection of my Ethernet > connection. Don't know which one did the trick, but now when I select > the logout menu item, I immediately get the log out dialog. Who knows. > > One last question. When my keyboard is idle, I hear disk activity about > every 10 seconds. Is this normal with ReiserFS? I don't remember > hearing this with ext2.
Are you logging in as "root" - because KDE and Gnome will default to NO icons - very bare - the idea being that no one should be operating the system as root anyways... ...just wondering... stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ The test of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Aldo Leopold
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