On 09/06/11 20:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote:
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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
Hey Ralf
Thanks for the reply ... unfortunately the reboot fix just ain't working
for me :-(
I've rebooted several times now in the course of trying to fix this and
it is still the same fecked-up cr4p that it was when I appealed for help.
This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by
a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete
waste of time when I have work to do!
Thanks anyway.
AG
You don't have a multi boot with another Linux for your work? That's
bad! If you have serious work to do, don't waste your time with fixing
your install. If for some reasons you should need this install, keep it
and fix it at another time. I would install a second Linux and do
important work first.
I hope somebody can help you to solve this issue.
Good luck!
Ralf
Ralf
I reckon that you've got a point there. I just didn't want to get
tangled up in UIDs for ~/ partitions and files, etc. so have avoided it
out of cowardice to date.
Given the spate of issues that I seem to have had of late with Debian,
that may be a cowardice I will need to overcome. I don't want to
encounter this when writing up my thesis, for example, and maybe
installing a nice, safe stable version as a safety net would be good. I
assume that is possible?
AG
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