My configuration: disk1 IDE (Windows XP and PCLINUXOS with multiple
partitions)
disk2 SATA (UBUNTU with multiple
partitions)
disk3 Fedora9 64bit LVM
RAM 3 gig
CPU Dual Core intel D930
My problem system Gnome2.22.2 with Fedora9 (also my preferred Bootable
System).
1)
a) When I create a new account (Fedora9 64 bit or even 32bit) with
Gnome version 2.22.2, the desktop is clear, except for the home
directory.
If user clicks on Places, and clicks on a unmounted disk partition, the
partition is mounted, and unmounted when user logs off or when an
unmount is requested. This is the normal and expected situation. But
when the user has sudo ability and does a sudo su command a few times,
at every logon all the disk partitions are on the desktop, and do not
follow the "new user logon" functionality.
b) Given the problem of a) above, if one clicks on Places again, and
choses a drive that is already showing on the desktop, that drive is
remounted. Then, there is no way for the user to exit or shutdown the
system normally. The system message appearing is "unable to unmount the
partition".
c) there does not appear to be a method to restore to the default action
where no disk partitions are mounted at logon time.
2)
Occasionally, a successful Gnome logon opens up with an empty desktop.
The drives and everything are mounted, but not visible. The only way to
recover is to have the user logout and log in again. Somehow I think it
is a timing or race condition between Fedora's HAL and Gnome. If HAL is
late, gnome opens the user desktop empty. Perhaps it is just a Gnome
problem. How can I detect this?
3)
When the other drives are always showing up on the desktop, and I click
on Places, for any one of "Home folder, to ... Download", instead of
opening the directory to show contents, Gnome starts a music program
(XMMS). This is indicative of a corrupted pointer. No indication given
about how to restore the correct pointer(s).
4)
Evolution bug. I cannot copy from an evolution email to an email opened
with Firefox. It just does not paste to Firefox. BUT, if I paste to
OpenOffice or to any text editor, I can then copy from the OpenOffice
text to the Firefox email (My target is from evolution email to
Yahoo.com email)
Why do I need to pass via an intermediary?
5)
Evolution address / Contacts list has room for 4 addresses. The list
ends up with email addresses that are not available anywhere in the
contact management window. Currently, to fix, I unload the contact
list, and with an editor, I remove the faulty entries, I clear out the
entire existing contact list and reload my corrected version.
(export-->correct-->import).
6)
This pertains to the Gnome website. I have a Canada French multilingual
keyboard, but my languages are english. When I chose to visit the links
for documentation, all is in French, with no ability to switch
languages. I am advised to visit the firefox settings. The settings show
English as priority.
(This is a web problem, I don't think it is a Gnome problem).
Leslie in Montreal
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