Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58181
At logon GNOME initialisation reports errors
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:57 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: Workstation (i386)installation seems to complete O.K. GNOME chosen as default desktop. Reboot after installation and subsequent logon to user account gives following message after GNOME initialisation. "Desk Guide Alert/GNOME Desktop Guide (Pager)/You are not running a GNOME compliant Window Manager/GNOME support by the Window Manager is strongly recommended for proper Desk Guide operation." Activation of "Start Here" icon launches application but panels cannot be moved/resized etc and all is patently not well. Logoff user and logon to root account gives similar problems. No desktop icons show at logon and choosing "Start Here" application from footprint popup gives following message "Application "Nautilus" (Process 1541) has crashed due to fatal error (Segmentation fault.)" Other applications can be launched O.K., e.g. browser can be used to access internet via LAN which must indicate that much of the installation has gone well. (e.g. Hardware/NIC/IP Protocol etc.etc) Further rebooting of system does nothing to improve situation. Total reinstall of system from scratch yields exactly same problems. Distribution media not suspect, already used for sucessfully installation on i386 laptop. Any ideas to alleviate problem please??? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Every installation from scratch faithfully reproduces GNOME initialisation problem at logon. 2. 3. Actual Results: See description field Expected Results: Normal GNOME initialisation. Additional info:
This doesn't happen for installs from scratch for me, or for most people. What I need to know is what might be different about your setup, or how you install. If you can't think of anything, maybe describe the hardware you are installing on.
Response to (e-mail from) ABrown. Cannot add any more info re installation. In fact installation seems to go fine. System is clone i386, ATX motherboard, single IDE disk/CD/floppy/PS2 mouse. NVidia GforceMX2/400 PCI graphics, IBM PCI Token Ring Adapter 2. After installation on reboot system comes up fine, Token ring adapter inserts on network, display is rock solid. Only problem is the one described with GNOME. For the record use of KDE seems fine. Just used distribution media again to install on IBM Intellistation M-Pro (6889-180) and everything is spot on. So in this respect I have not replicated the problem (to date) on other systems. For this reason it may not warrant a lot of attention. Dave paxton
I can't reproduce. Something has to be wrong on the hardware level, or maybe driver level. If it's tracked down in a bit more detail, please reopen the report.