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[SOLVED] GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:44 am
by dcihon
When I select GNOME I get the following error
Oh No! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please Log out and try again.
Not sure what else you need to know.
Thanks
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:12 am
by mads
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:29 am
by dcihon
I have a high end nvidia card. I can do 3d acceleration.
It was working at one time. Something broke.
What is the command to tell you what video card I have?
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:31 am
by mads
dcihon wrote:I have a high end nvidia card. I can do 3d acceleration.
It was working at one time. Something broke.
What is the command to tell you what video card I have?
Ok, then it is something else. Sorry!
The command is:
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:32 am
by dcihon
root@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~# inxi -G
Graphics: Card nVidia G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] X.org 1) Res: 97x24 Gfx Data: N/A for root
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:04 am
by mads
dcihon wrote:root@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~# inxi -G
Graphics: Card nVidia G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] X.org 1) Res: 97x24 Gfx Data: N/A for root
Why does it show: 'root@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~#' ?
Are you logging in and out as root? If so, it is not strange that you are experiencing this issue, and more will follow.
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:39 am
by dcihon
no I just happened to run su - and then ran that command
here it is in my user terminal
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card nVidia G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] X.Org 1.11.3.901 Res: 3200x1080@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:31 am
by dcihon
Still trying to rebuild my Gnome 3 in LMDE, not having much luck, looking for some help.
This is my Desktop machine. It is running fine on my Laptop.
I did something to trash it but I don't know what.
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:59 am
by iLobster
Take out compiz from autostart.
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:05 am
by dcihon
Did that and it is working.
I did read that somewhere. I forgot about that being a problem.
Thanks for reminding me.
Now in trying to solve this issue I have lost GNOME as a choice to load.
gnome-session is installed.
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:40 am
by iLobster
dcihon wrote:Did that and it is working.
I did read that somewhere. I forgot about that being a problem.
Thanks for reminding me.
Now in trying to solve this issue I have lost GNOME as a choice to load.
gnome-session is installed.
Don't understand. You had Gnome option but it didn't work.
Now you can load it but you don't have such option. Correct?
If so, how do you try to load it?
After installing Gnome 3.2 there are two logon options: Gnome and Gnome Classic.
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:31 am
by dcihon
Sorry about the confusion.
In the process for me trying to fix this problem I lost the choices during login to select GNOME.
I obviously deleted something.
I think I had it working and then I must have deleted something.
I wish I could retrace my steps but I've done so many things on my system lately I don't know what I did when.
I am using Debian SID and have been trying various DE, Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE (my base install), LXDE.
I thought I could run all of these and test them out to see what I liked about each one.
Looks like I'm trying to do too much on one system and have it all confused.
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:36 am
by GeneC
Hi dan!
Sounds like you might have deleted (or borked) something necessary when installing Cinnamon?
Why not try just re-installing 'gnome-shell'. (I would add 'gnome-common' also).
That might work for you.
Nothing to loose.
Re: GNOME DE not working
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:21 am
by dcihon
@Gene,
I did that and also gnome-session.
Looks like I have it back.
I could have sworn I tried that before and it didn't work.
Maybe with changing sources and all kinds of things I got it all screwed up.
Anyway it now works.
thanks
Dan