Gnome desktop dead

nyk · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:28 am Post subject: Gnome desktop dead

My gnome desktop is dead, I mean it doesn't start up somehow. There is no desktop background and no icons, just blackness.

I already had something similar, that the windows manager didn't start up and I could fix it by starting gnome-wm. Is there a command to start the gnome desktop?

Piot · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Netherlands

I had similair problem with my gnome. I got no background and no icons. Also I couldn't right-click on the desktop. The panesl were working.

Re-emerging nautilus fixed the problem. You could try that.
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nyk · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject:

Thanx! It's really a nautilus problem, you are right! But re-emerging doesn't fix it here. When I start nautilus at the command line, it just hangs. Any ideas?
I'm gonna try the ~amd64 version next...

I get errors like this while compiling:
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libeel-2.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libgnomeui-2.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libgailutil.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libglade-2.0.la' seems to be moved

Piot · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Netherlands

It looks like you are missing a lot of libs.

After some searching on google, I found that al these libs are from the gnome package. Maybe it is a idea to reemerge the whole gnome package. So you have the libs again.
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nyk · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:

Couldn't it be related to the libtool update recently?

gxs · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 1

I'm having this exact same problem and it started today.

Everthing is in /home/user/Desktop but it's just not on my desktop. I can't add new things to my desktop or right-click it. The system icons are also gone.

I have tried based on reading around the forums and google:

* gconf-editor: show system icons and show desktop IS enabled

* reemerged nautilus

* ran bonobo-slay

* tried "killall nautilus && nautilus" which results in an error "nautilus: no process killed"

If I login to gnome as root then everything is fine and I have desktop icons.

Any ideas? Tried IRC and got no responses.

Thanks.

c0bblers · Guru Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 403

Hi,

If "killall nautilus && nautilus" doesn't work because there's no nautilus running, it wont ever get to the "nautilus" bit, just try plain "nautilus". It might be that nautilus is no longer in your Session and so isn't loaded at startup.

Cheers,
James

nyk · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:

No, the problem here is that nautilus doesn't run anymore, even from the terminal. Doesn't give an error message, just hangs. Re-emerging it doesn't help.

syouth · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 275

Maybe try to make a new test user and run Gnome with this new user. Maybe some settings have broken?
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nyk · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

Ok, with a new user it works. But I didn't figure out what caused it. I deleted all the .g* directories without effect and then the .nautilus and .metacity. And still broken desktop. Now with a new user it miraculously works. But I deletet all my mails in the .thunderbird directry because I tought that I don't need these settings anyway...

syouth · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 275