Starting Gnome causes some odd symptoms, and doesn't 'work'

krazykit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 91

I've emerge Gnome, no errors, and installed it according to the docs. However, when I startx, I get the splash screen, which seems to display the first 2 icons (on the splash). It suddenly displays a black screen with horizontal flashing gray bars on the top and bottom of the screen. I can also see the mouse cursor, and it responds. I can also ctrl-alt-backspace out of X.
Information that may be relevant: I'm using the latest ATI drivers with the latest (working) Xorg. KDE starts just fine, and displays none of these symptoms. I'm not using Composite, either.
Any ideas?

EDIT: As an added bonus, I've also b0rked KDE, which errors out with something like "screen ' ' cannot be initialized." I'll post the actual error later, when I get a chance

krazykit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 91

Also, twm loads just fine, so it really isn't a problem with Xorg.

krazykit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 91

Also, why would gnome call for 'sh: kde-config'? seems rather odd... Could it be that i'm using the qt-gtk engine?

for my error message look near the bottom of this text file: http://www.crache.org/up/files/kdeaddons.txt

cocoliso · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 68

i just emerge gnome 2.10.2 and im having the exact problem

my gentoo os:

kernel-2.6.12-nitro5
xorg 6.8.2
gcc 3.4.3
kde 3.4.2

any ideas?

frilled · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:28 am Post subject:

Hm, I just ran into this on one box, too. It works for other users on the same box, though. I think (thought?) I deleted all the files Gnome would cough about, like gconf stuff in /tmp, all the .gconf, gconfd, .gnome* directories etc. etc. Still I get two flashing bars (guess that's the default panel and windowlist bar), then, after some seconds, I'm left with the background kdm originally set up, and a mouse pointer.
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