On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 23:31, Paul Davies wrote: > Dear Slugs > > Is there anybody out there who has installed a linux distribution who > uses the gnome desktop, and has subsequently tried upgraded the XFree86 > server to 4.3.0?
I've been running gnome 2.2 and 2.3 against XFree 4.3 for a while now. I had some problems initially because of a broken dependency in the mandrake packages that meant I had to ask it to upgrade freetype and fontconfig after I'd upgraded X. It sounds like you're seeing different problems though. Though the different X server thing makes me think otherwise. Does xigraphics do the same nifty font rendering stuff that ships with XFree these days? > If I judiously install some of the new config files I do get gnome to > start seemingly very nicely. The problem is, there are subtle little > problems like - Nautilus doesn't work properly. When I try to open > Nautilus it opens up, then shuts down, up, down and so on. There are > other subtle problems as well. Ok, so nautilus is being started up again by gnome-session. If it's crashing, I've often found it's because of a library it can't find. It might be dumping core, so examining the core dumps with gdb is probably instructive. I would debug it by starting an xterm and running "killall nautilus; nautilus" and watching the errors when the thing dies. I've often seen it die because of unresolved symbols in some .so files. If that's the case then there's some libraries you'll need to upgrade. At any rate, it will tell you what's going on, which gives you a starting point. HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
