GNOME workstation installation. Log in as root. On my 486 with 32Mb I get a dialog box: "panel No response to the SaveYourself command." Cancel it. Log out. .xsession-errors contains: SESSION_MANAGER=local/cocobean.elk.co.uk:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1053,tcp/cocobean.elk.co.uk:1038 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0 xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (99/99) xscreensaver: Errors at startup are usually authorization problems. Did you read the manual and the FAQ? Specifically, the parts of the manual that talk about XAUTH, XDM, and root logins? http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man.html rm: cannot remove `/root/.gnome//gmc-v2LrCF': No such file or directory subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
The second part of the .xsession-errors is simply Xscreensaver not working as root. See the URL if you want more information about the issue. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8996 For more information about the warning dialog and a possible workaround. (The answer is basically "your machine is too slow to run GNOME" :-(. It's hard to fix this without adversly impacting the user experience for users on faster machines. I am changing this delay from 10 seconds by default to 15 seconds in our packages. Hopefully this will ameliorate the problem.