Gnome menu disappears, freeze on splash screen

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I've been having several problems with gnome 2.8 recently. Specifically all of the icons in my gnome menu disappear and the icons on ly desktop other than my home folder and computer disappear as well. This happens fairly regularly, but always whenever I run gnome-theme-manager. Sometimes they come back and sometimes they don't.

I've also been having problems logging into gnome once I've already logged out once. It just sits there with an empty splash screen indefinitely, I have to kill the X server every time, and it still won't let me log in. I've tried stopping gdm then killing all of the processes that have started since booting, then starting gdm again, but it still won't let me log in. Every time I've had this problem I've had to reboot before I can log into Gnome again.

Thanks,
Aaron
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koroumel · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

I've been having this exact problem for ages. Now I know that I'm not the only one! Someone must know of a solution.
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jrz · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

Have you tried deleting old configs?

Like:

koroumel · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject:

I remember doing this, but I'll try again once I return to my computer. Thnx anyway!
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koroumel · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:12 am Post subject:

I tried your suggestion jrz, only to find out that it won't solve he problem. It is strange, I never had a problem with gnome, and this behaviour started to happen after I upgraded to and amd64. Still, I've seen people having it in x86 architectures. This is geting serious, as I see quite a few people having this. So a message to all the people having this. Post you cpu architecture, motherboard chipset, graphics card, memory type and size, gnome version, kernel version, and anything else you think is important. I start with mine:

AMD64 3500+ (939)
VIA K8T800PRO/VT8237
GeForce 6800GT
1GHz DDR 400MHz
gnome-light-2.8.1
gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r14
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koroumel · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

Last night, I created another user and as root I copied all my configs except .bashrc and another related to bash to the home directory of this new user. I then logged in my acount and logged out after 10 seconds without running anything or even clicking on the menu. I logged in as root again and copied my files back to my old user home directory by overwritting files already existed (since they were created when I logged in).

I logged in back to my account and I tried to reproduce the erroneous behaviour. Suprisingly the system works :!:

I tried running the theme manager many times and loaded many different themes, and it did not fail, it is now running normally for 15 hours

The only thing I have not done yet is to logout and login back to it... but I will do so later when I'll be in front of my computer again.

It will be weird if this solved the problem, but I relly hope it did

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koroumel · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject:

No luck, instead only some improvement in the frequency of occurance. It happens every 2 days or so, unles I do something nasty with it. Oh well, I hope future releases will solve that.
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