We get the JDS banner after a long delay, which announces it is starting
gnome-panel, metacity, etc as we would expect it to. Then the screen
goes grey and things sit.

Cyrille Moureaux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Indeed, the bonobo errors come up on the other servers as well. I did
>> start by cleaning out /tmp and /var/tmp - that's all I've ever had to do
>> on a Linux system running Gnome.
>>
>> I can't tell whether gnome-session hangs before it calls metacity, or if
>> metacity is crashing; I trussed gnome-session and gconfd as soon as I
>> could after the terminal connected, but essentially they are just
>> sleeping.
>>  
>>
> Usually, even when the startup of gnome-session is somehow hanging, you
> get something on the Sun Ray (black screen with icon or timer on it), so
> I'd imagine it's hanging pretty early in the process. One thing you
> could check is whether you can communicate with the gconfd by getting a
> prompt as the user whose session is blocked and running gconftool-2 -g
> /something which would block if the gconfd is itself not responding. I
> doubt it though, as most cases when gconfd is stuck or has crashed end
> up in the situation I described above.
> 
> You could also replace the gnome-session startup command in
> /usr/dt/config/Xinitrc.jds to truss that process too if you want to
> monitor it from its start.
> 
> Cyrille
> 
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