Gnome 2.6.2 locking up..

[MDesigner]

I just installed Slackware 10 on a laptop, and I configured X via xorgconfig.. I type 'startx'.. and I see the Gnome splash screen, which shows the icons as it boots.. it gets to Nautlilus, then stops. I can see the desktop & panels, but no icons. No errors/warnings in .xsession-errors, none in /var/log/messages. How do I troubleshoot this??

I take it back.. if I click on the Gnome splash graphic, it goes away. Weird.. I wonder why it doesn't go away on its own. And Gnome failed to create my Desktop/ folder and create the usual desktop icons.. not sure why.

Damn I hate installing Linux on laptops.. I've installed Slackware on desktops probably 8 times or so.. no problems whatsoever. Laptops...bah!

[rbrimhall]

Yeah, it took me a full weekend to get slack going on my inspiron 8500. I've experienced the gnome splash screen lock-ups with dropline... which is why I reinstalled slack 10 for the default gnome. My advice, look around in /tmp and delete any lock files, gconf-username files, and orbit files... also, check what processes are loading with gnome session and remove some to see if this stops the problem.

[MDesigner]

Yeah I don't use Dropline anymore.. I like a "pure" Slackware 10 setup.

I did kill processes one by one.. nothing happened. I'll check tmp files. I also rm -rf'd a whole mess of gnome files in my home dir, then did startx again.. it recreated them, but still the splash screen hung around until I clicked it.

Arrghh..

[rbrimhall]

You have to save gnome-session so when you log in again the process doesn't start up... in case you weren't... I'm betting the culprit is in /tmp though... personally speaking... either the gnome-session or rm -rf files with my user name in /tmp solved the problem or some combination of the two... the interesting thing in my case was that I was the only user affected by the freezing splash screen...


I just remembered... I diabled the splash screen from loading... then went about removing files from /tmp... logged in to gnome and reenabled the splash... worth a shot...

[MDesigner]

Screw it, I just formatted. I cleaned all /tmp files and killed sessions, nothing helped. I think I botched my install somehow.

The new install works perfectly. Very odd.

[XiaoKJ]

In Gnome 2.6 and somewhere after that, the splash screen doesn't go off itself -- at least for all my distros they don't.

But I can get it to go away even before anything forms in it :D

It has no impact on performance though

[MDesigner]

Hm, there was something definitely wrong. The ~/Desktop folder was never created.

I'm pretty sure I screwed something up on the Slackware install, because I did expert mode. I probably left out something important. Best to stick with full install.. :)