On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> I just finished a fresh network installation of openSUSE 10.2 Alpha 3 on
> my hp workstation zx6000 (Itanium IA-64 architecture). When I log in a
> GNOME session, I'm getting a dialog stating that there was an error
> starting the GNOME settings daemon. This dialog has no window decoration
> at all. During the same time, the window manager icon is displayed for
> several minutes in the GNOME splash screen before the starting process
> and the remaining icons are displayed. I eventually access to a GNOME
> desktop, but there's no window decoration at all and windows can't thus
> be moved, resized, etc.
>
> I've only found one similar report here www.tuxmachines.org/node/8898
>
> There's nothing similar in bugzilla for the openSUSE 10.2 and
> OpenSUSE.org products.
Please file a bug then!
> I've found similar reports on Google for older SuSE distributions: it
> appears this was due to the language settings. However, changing the
> language settings to en_US.UTF-8 or even POSIX doesn't help.
>
> Is there anybody out there experiencing the same problem? Is this issue
> specific to Itanium? To 64-bit architectures? If it can help, here's the
> contents of my ~/.xsession_errors (as user emeric):
>
> /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with
> wtmp and utmp
> /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a
> -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
> ":0" "emeric"
> /etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started.
> INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
> Trying to start a default input method for the locale fr_FR.UTF-8 ...
> There is no default input method for the current locale.
> Failed to execute message bus daemon ${exec_prefix}/bin/dbus-daemon: No
> such file or directory. Will try again without full path.
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/zx6000:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4485
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
> Avertissement du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Nom de clé ou de répertoire
> incorrect: « ENABLE_WINDOWS_KEYS » : Doit commencer par une barre
> oblique (/)
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
>
> (process:4640): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion
> `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
>
> (nautilus:4629): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Failed to activate daemon: The
> name org.gnome.GnomeVFS.Daemon was not provided by any .service files
> Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
> Initializing nautilus-share extension
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
>
> ** (gnome-panel:4627): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1259: failed to
> load applet OAFIID:TomboyApplet:
> (null)
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
>
> (gnome-panel:4627): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple:
> assertion `dest_width > 0' failed
>
> (gnome-panel:4627): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple:
> assertion `dest_width > 0' failed
>
> ** (nautilus:4629): WARNING **: Can not caclulate
> _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS
>
> ** (nautilus:4629): WARNING **: Can not calculate
> _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS
>
> ** (nautilus:4629): WARNING **: Can not get _NET_WORKAREA
>
> ** (nautilus:4629): WARNING **: Can not determine workarea, guessing at
> layout
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
> /opt/gnome/share/themes/Clarius/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:57: error: unexpected
> identifier `animation', expected character `}'
Regards
Christoph
