I wonder if your jjj user is missing the gnome panel applet in the startup thing for gnome. Now that you have the panel you can look at applications that are set to start up when the user logs in. Also blowing away the old .gnome and .gnome2 directories in jjj's home directory might yield more info. I suspect something in one of the configs that lives in those dot directories since your other user can login fine.
Back them up first because it'll probably wipe out your background wallpaper and other settings but then you can start draggin and droppin stuff into the newly created .gnome/2 dirs that will be created at startup and figure out what the culprit is. On 4/24/09, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:12:37 -0700 (PDT) > Joe Pruett <[email protected]> dijo: > >> give up on gnome-terminal and use xterm. it's not as fancy, but doesnt >> rely on all the rest of gnome running. obviously you have some startup >> problem, so you might want to check your x logs (not sure exactly where >> ubuntu puts them). > > I'll consider xterm later. > > Right now I am thrilled to report that Gnome-do did the job. I am > happily writing this in Gnome with my panel and everything apparently > working as before the upgrade to Jaunty. > > As I said in my last message, I logged in as my alter ego "jcj." Good > old "jcj" had a normal screen with the Gnome panel. Yay! Then I logged > out jcj and tried to log in as root, but Ubuntu said root can't log in > from the start window. Oh well. > > So then I logged in as myself "jjj" and when I did there was this > little display in the middle of the screen. It was Gnome-do and it said > I should start typing. So I typed gnome-panel and hit enter. And my > panel came right up. Yay! > > Now I need to figure out how to make it permanent. But at least I can > get gnome-panel working. And I can get a gnome terminal and anything > else I need. > > Thanks for all the tips. Ain't it fun to sleuth out stuff that's > broken? And look at all the neat tricks I have learned. :) > > I'm just thankful that I have the time to devote to fixing stuff right > now and a team of PLUGgers with the brains to give me suggestions. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
