On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:35 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think Rogan is on the right track. But figuring out the details and
> how to fix it is beyond my job description. :(
>
> At least I am back in my testing installation and I can work on things
> properly. :)
I'm glad XFCE got you going again -- and that we've narrowed it down
to *something* gnome is doing -- the HAL issue is probably the best
lead so far.
I don't use gnome directly (I got tired of things like obscure HAL
errors, keyboard problems, etc.... ;), so I can't help a *lot* but you
can still try invoking little bits of gnome on your one, individually,
to try and narrow this down further.
I'd suggest searching for the HAL issue first, though. Someone else
may have done the legwork for you.
If that fails, try running some smaller chunks of gnome from a
terminal (either in xfce, or from a terminal in X with no WM
running... whatever you want.
Here are a few gnome-ish "programs" you can fire off:
* gnome-panel: handles the taskbars / button bars. If running
xfce, these will probably show up infront or behind the xfce
taskbar/button bars.
* gnome-power-manager: This *might* be running already -- in fact,
while running xfce, you may want to check the running processes ('ps
-ef' at a terminal) and see what gnome-ish stuff is going. Those
aspects of gnome are probably just fine.
* gnome-settings-daemon: handles all the gnome settings (go figure
:). I'd guess this is where you'll see the HAL issue crop up again,
and you may very well loose mouse / keyboard control when you start it
if that's the case.
* metacity (I think....): The gnome window manager. This will
probably not work while xfce is running, so you may need to log in via
a terminal, set your .xinitrc to either 'exec metacity' or 'exec
xterm' (or whatever term you want) and then run metacity from that
terminal when X starts with no window manager. If you start up with
'exec metacity' you will probably get a greyish screen with nothing on
it--try clicking around. (That may also not do anything--I haven't
used metacity in ages, so, starting a terminal from your xinitrc may
be the better option. You can also launch a terminal in xinitrc,
*then* start metacity:
xterm & # start a terminal, and background it ( with the &)
exec metacity # launch metacity.
Anyway, if you can't find info on the HAL error, the idea is to figure
out what part of gnome is failing.
--Rogan
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