On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote: > Hi all > > Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my > Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been > borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. > > These are some of the issues: > 1. Windows manager is "unknown" and no configuration tool is registered > 2. windows are launched at the top of the screen & I cannot drag these > elsewhere > 3. clicking a mouse on a window does not bring it to the fore > 4. there are no longer multiple workspaces > 5. windows do not have the 'x' in the corner to close, nor any option to > minimise/ enlarge > 6. a screensaver launches after ~30 seconds of inactivity (I don't use a > screensaver) > 7. no key mapping exists > > Both metacity and nautilus are the most current versions. No other > user-based changes made to configuration except for whatever gets > configured in safe updates using update-manager. > > Can anyone please help - I really do need a usable desktop environment > to work in. > > Thanks. > > AG
I can't help but confirm that strange things happen, at least for me too. A reboot always reset everything to normal. If similar happens here, I sometimes get D-Bus errors, but again, after rebooting everything was fixed. Yesterday the GNOME terminal emulation all of a sudden changed from normal letters to some cryptic letters, I closed and opened it ant everything was ok. I lost the root command history and it kept lost. My machine is a real-time machine with a self build kernel 2.6.39.1 and I successfully switched ALSA and jackd by self build versions, but that shouldn't cause any issues. I suspect that D-Bus is broken. Just a shot in the dark ;) Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1307643570.6819.7.camel@debian
