Re: Gnome2.2 or 4.8 Stable Login logout Problem.

From: Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus_at_marcuscom.com)
Date: 05/31/03

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    To: Dave Bradshaw <dave_bradshaw@blueyonder.co.uk>
    Date: 31 May 2003 15:35:04 -0400
    
    
    

    On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 14:54, Dave Bradshaw wrote:
    > Dear All,
    >
    > Since upgrading to 4.8 stable I have had problems logging in and logging
    > out.
    > It can take up to three attempts to login, each time I get the message
    > your session lasted for less than 10 seconds please check
    > .xsession-errors or if I login the first time, then on login out the
    > screen either goes black and I am unable to do anything other than power
    > cycle the machine, or I get a message about the display being in use so
    > this session has been started on another display.
    > These problems did not occur when running 4.7 or 4.8 RC.

    This may be symptomatic of missing libraries. Do you see any ld.so
    errors in your .xsession-errors? Do you see any application crashes
    when you run dmesg?

    >
    > Looking at .xsession-errors file it is full of these error messages -
    >
    > (gnome-panel:305): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_NAME contained
    > invalid UTF-8
    >
    > Window manager warning: Property _NET_WM_NAME on window 0x14000f4
    > contained invalid UTF-8
    > Window manager warning: Property _NET_WM_NAME on window 0x14000f4
    > contained invalid UTF-8

    What do you have set to startup when you login to GNOME? These messages
    may be benign. For instance, Phoenix has been known to cause this when
    browsing certain websites.

    >
    > Yesterday I went through the process of upgrading all my ports, then
    > running cvsup stable-supfile, building and installing a new kernel, but
    > this has not rectified the problem.
    >
    > Does anybody have any ideas about how this can rectified?

    You can try moving ~/.gnome2/session file out of the way to force GNOME
    to start a default session. Also, answering my above questions can shed
    some more light on this.

    Joe

    >
    > Thanks in advance.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Dave

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