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 > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ Walter R. Moore -- System Administrator, Eckerd College [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://home.eckerd.edu/~moorewr Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. (They make a wilderness and call it peace.) ---Tacitus, reporting the words of Calgalus
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