Re: Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

From: Andrea Vettorello (andrea.vettorello_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    To: Ian Thomas <scraemondaemon@yahoo.com>
    
    

    On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Ian Thomas
    <scraemondaemon@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >

    [...]

    >
    > Final update:
    >
    > I deleted every file in my home directory that could
    > possibly be related to gnome, leaving only the
    > following config files:
    >
    > .bash_profile, .bashrc, .emacs, .fetchmailrc,
    > .procmailrc, .ssh
    >

    Have you deleted the ~/.sawfish dir too, or at least the
    ~/.sawfish/sessions dir?

    > Gnome started up with default settings and still
    > failed to show a panel. Watching the icons appear
    > across the bottom of the splash screen appeared to
    > show two gnome panel icons. This would mean that two
    > gnome panels attempted to start. Doing the following
    > showed that a panel was running
    >
    > ps aux | grep panel
    >
    > It wasn't however, showing up on the screen. Repeated
    > usage of the above combination showed that the panel
    > kept starting and dieing, as it was listed with a
    > different procid each time. I was also unable to
    > start a panel from the terminal. Gnome told me that a
    > panel was already running and asked if I would like to
    > start one anyway. I said yes, and still, no panel
    > appeared.
    >
    > I'm giving up on finding a solution to this problem.
    > I'm going to wait until Sarge is released and update
    > Gnome when that happens. I'm hoping it's soon. Gnome
    > 1.4, in my experience, has been a complete disaster.
    > My thanks to Anrea for attempting to figure out this
    > problem with me.
    >

    Andrea

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