[Bug 439199] New: occasional problem with gnome session manager during boot
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439199 Summary: occasional problem with gnome session manager during boot Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bobharvey@europe.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Community User Hi. I use a pretty-much default system with a gnome desktop and a single user apart from root. The system is set to auto-login that user at bootup. Around one time in ten or so, Before the Gnome 'panel' appears, I get an error dialogue (with a stop sign) which says "The GNOME session manager cannot start properly. Please report this as a GNOME bug. Please include this ICE failure message in the bug report 'Cannot establish any listening sockets'. meanwhile you could try logging in using the failsafe session." If I acknowledge this box I get the normal GDM username box, and if I log in after that (without using the failsafe session) it all appears normal but nothing works. I once tried the failsafe session and that was just as broken, so I have never bothered again. I have noticed that when this happens, if I ctrl-alt-1 without acknowleding the error dialogue that booting has not completed. Sometimes the first console is sitting at the line about NTPd . there is no login prompt. Nor is there one on the other consoles either. Today when I went ctrl-alt-1 the green bootup screen with it's faint little progress bar re-appeared, and the progress bar started moving left from about 3/4 across. When it finished I got the normal login prompt, and was indeed able to login in as root. I have had a similar session manager dialogue box sometimes, complaining about the ownership of my .ICEauthority file. I had a quick look at that and it was dated at the moment I last performed a shutdown from the panel at the bottom of the screen (libssui-tool --shutdown) . I then rebooted and the sequence was normal. I have searched bugzilla for the strings from the message, and not finding them I am making the bug report as requested. Are there any logs you want me to save next time this happens? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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