on Wednesday 12/12/2007 Marzan, Richard non Unisys([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John, > > > I remember having the same problem before and I believe that > deleting the appropriate .gnome and .gnome2 directories would fix the > problem. I'm not sure why this happens or why this solution worked for > me but it did. You might lose some settings. Do not worry because the > .gnome and .gnome2 directories will be recreated as soon as you try to > run gnome. > > Regards, > > Richard >
Unfortunately, no joy, I started xinit and I have in my /root directory a .xinitrc which says exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session but all I got was a message on the text console which said waiting for the server to shut down, so we have a server problem as well, apparently. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:43 AM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating > world > > > > Hi. After upgrading my system using emerge --update --deep > > --with-bdeps=y world I am no longer able to use x-windows. I saw a > > message for one package connection refused by server, but I saw that > > gnome-session had ended and that no other gnome apps had hstarted. > > There is nothing in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, so I have no idea how to > > trouble shoot this at all. I am using nvidia drivers 100.14.19 and > > gentoo sources of 2.6.21-r4. > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > > > -- > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > How do > > you spend it? > > > > John Covici > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list