Re: Headaches setting in

[Jon Earle <earlej sympatico ca>]

Hi. Thank you for the reply!

At 01:53 PM 3/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:28:36 Jon Earle wrote:
>> <zathras>  Zathras not understanding.  Zathras good at usings, not
>> programmings.  </zathras>
>
>Well, at the very least you seem to be a pretty good end-user.  This problem
>report at least gave enough details for us to help.  :)

Working in network support drills that into you.  :)

>it generally wins and you get the Gnome background.  The Gnome background 
>setting should
>have an option to disable backgrounds.  Use that, and your E background 
>should show up.

I found that, and turned it off - for now, until I can somehow figure out
how all this stuff works together:  Gtk themes, E themes, Gnome themes...
Waaaaa!

>The icons problem is a bug in the version of gmc that you have.  I'm not 
>sure if
>new RPMS have been released for the latest GMC or not, but just clicking the 
>filemanager
>icon should work fine in the mean time.

Okay... 2 down.  Annoying though - the little face associated with the core
file looks like a case of yellow fever or something dreadful.  :)

>As to the rest of your error messages, I really can't give any other advice 
>than perhaps
>trying a "rm -Rf ~/.gnome".  Sorry, I just couldn't tell enough of your 
>description of what
>happened to give any better advice, but that's still better than 
>reinstalling all of Gnome, IMO.

Well, the one that has me super stumped is this:  There were, at first
install's light, a number of really nice backgrounds withing the E config
-> A shot of the sun reflecting off a creek in the woods, a couple of
sunsets, etc.  They are completely gone now.  Did a search on *.png and
checked out those that I found (lots!) and they were not there.  I removed
all the rpms I installed, and redid the whole installation - the entire
enchilada (lots of toys now!), and the backgrounds were still not there!
Now, this is not a crucial point, but I'm really curious as to where they
might be, or what rpm they came from.

>> 2. I get lots of weird errors when I shut down gnome:  "sh: `-c' requires
>> an argument", "Gdk-ERROR **: an x io error occurred"  \n  "aborting...", etc
>
>I see some similar errors when exiting X and generally don't consider them to
>be something to worry about.  Maybe they are, but I haven't figured out how 
>errors
>on X shutdown could be causing a problem, and all of my gnome apps continue 
>to work fine.
>If you can't prove it's broke, don't fix it.  :)

Well, I don;t know if the shutdown itself causes them, or if they are
messages that pop up during the course of the session, and quitting X just
reveals them.  (Console messages perhaps? If so, can I redirect them to a
xterm window so I can watch them?)

>> 3.  If I kill the help-browser, I get a core file.
>
>I haven't seen this one.  Perhaps you should send a backtrace from GDB?

What is the procedure for this?  I'd be happy to present this.  I've
noticed that the first window I kill (either the fileman or the help
browser) after opening G for the first time causes the core file.

Cheers!
Jon