On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:20:44 +1000, Craige McWhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 11:14 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: > > Anyone know why the X windows session as shown in the small jpeg > > attached image is failing to load... the screen grab shows the point > > in which it just appears to stop and go no further... I get a sound > > played and then that fades out and I am left with the screen grab. > > We'll need some log files. Start by looking at this file: > > ~/.xsession-errors > > Anything going fnky in there?
Yep, see below. If only I knew about this file. Ah well my skills with X are non existant. Used only cli for the last 7 years ;) extract; ubuntu-io:/home/michaelf# more .xsession-errors /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp - u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "michaelf" /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... SESSION_MANAGER=local/ubuntu-io:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6645 WARNING: No window manager can be found. Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
