Fedora 14 - no gnome-panel visible when gnome started
1-2 weeks ago I've installed Fedora 14 on 2 machines. One (64bit) is OK with respect to gnome-panel, but on the second one (32bit) I have a strange problem.
KDE is OK, but when I start Gnome, I see no gnome panel. Code:
ps -ea | grep gnome-panel When I kill it, it does re-spawn. But no gnome panel bar is visible (neither the top menu, nor the bottom taskbar). Alt+F2 pops up the "Run application dialogue" Both machines are updated by "yum update". Gnome panel package version is gnome-panel-2.32.0.2-2.fc14.i686. On the affected machine, I have moved my /home data from simple subdir on / partition to a dedicated partition (/home is a logical volume on to of RAID1): Code:
mount | grep home At the time of moving the /home, there was just one user account. Later, after moving /home, I've created 2 more and all of them have the same problem with gnome. Could this be a selinux + ~/.gvfs issue? selinux context for .gvfs is same as at the machine which has no issues: Code:
ls -aZ ~ | grep .gvfs |
Whenever I've had that issue, I log out then back in and it usually appears. It is more graphics related than SELinux I think. The panel doesn't appear until everything on it is ready for use, so there may be an issue with networking or bluetooth startup that is slowing the panels appearance.
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@Tijn, What happens when you kill and start gnome panel again ?
Execute by following way and let me know its working or not. #killall gnome-panel #gnome-panel & |
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Eventually I have identified (yestarday's late-nite investigation...) that it the origin of the problem is a bogus display auto-detection. For some reason (BIOS bug?) FC14 detects 2 monitors - LVDS1 + VGA1 (if using VGA-connected display) or LVDS1 + DVI1 (if using DVI-connected display) This can be identified using following command: Code:
$ xrandr -q But the machine is not any laptop - but a desktop, with a single connected monitor ! (just being installed as a HTPC...) The motherboard type is MSI 945GT Speedster-A4R, socket-based MicroATX board for use with mobile Intel CPUs (core/Yonnah and core2/Merom). It worked well earlier with Fedora 9 - no such issues during more then 4 years. I have figured this out when I had strange video resolution setup issues with xbmc, and later also gdm became confused - so the issues converged to one point. In any case - KDE somehow managed it better then Gnome. Actually, I have diagnosed it by executing (in the crippled gnome session) Alt+F2 -> gnome-display-properties. The final solution was to add the following line at the end of the gdm configuration file /etc/gdm/Init/Default Code:
/usr/bin/xrandr --output LVDS1 --off |
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