Re: A small problem

[<kend xanoptix com>]

No, it's unlikely to be a Gnome issue, in-and-of itself, as the problem is
that your window manager isn't coming up.  Granted, that -could- be called
by gnome-session, so you might want to rename your ~/.gnome/session
directory to something else, and see what (if, indeed, anything) changes. 
If still no dice, then it's definitely not Gnome, but WM-related, and that
would depend on which WM you're running.

-Ken

> Thanks for the suggestion but it still doesn't work.  In fact there was
> no difference at all when I moved those files which I think is fishy in
> itself.
>
> -Bill
>
> Ole Laursen wrote:
>
>>Bill Cote USG <billcote zk3 dec com> writes:
>>
>>>I have been having a strange problem getting gnome up and running on
>>> my HPUX machine.  I have successfully installed it and It seems to
>>> want to come up (no errors) but when it gets to the desktop, it is
>>> simply an x screen (little x's forming a greyish backdrop with the
>>> cursor a big X in the middle).  The interesting problem is that it
>>> only starting doing this after we took a power hit.  I have gone as
>>> far as unistalling/reinstalling gnome to no avail.  I have looked all
>>> over for a file that might point me in the right direction but I can't
>>> find anythin.g.  I don't know if it is a problem with X as CDE comes
>>> up fine for me if I try to use that.  Any suggestions/questions?
>>>
>>
>>Perhaps one of the configuration files was screwed up? You could try
>> moving .files in your home directory to a temperary location, e.g.
>> .gnome .gnome2 .gconf etc.