Gnome applets keep crashing in F10
 

hello
my gnome applets keep crashing in Fedora 10_64
i thought it was the buggy kernel that it shipped with but the update for that came out and that crashing thing went away

my file browser and firefox 3.0.11 also seem to crash regular

would anyone have any thoughts on how to remedy this?



one post in another forum suggested that the .gnome / .gnome2 / .metacity
files may be the culprit and that deleting them would cause Gnome to regenerate fresh ones at reboot

does this sound right?

I think I read somewhere that it may be a video driver
or maybe i have just been reading too many posts and have them confused

anyways
thank you

what web pages dose it crash on .there was a bug in the default fedora flash plugin for the 64bit OS . Have you installed the new 64 bit flash plugin ?

so gnome crashing went away 6 months ago , that was when the first update came out for fedora 10 ?

you might want to read these links
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html
http://www.dnmouse.org/

alritght Firefox crashes reandomly when hitting forward or back or any radio button inside the web page
not exactly website specific
i have the adobe flash libflashplayer.so in the /lib64/mozilla/plugins folder

its a little glitchy on Fullscreen, but ok

now the gnome applet crashing is an ongoing every ten min thing
and its always the 'workplace switcher' the 'show desktop' and 'window list'
that crash

oh yea and since i posted the first part of this thread the new updated kernel crashed

the whole thing is just a little flakey
on my gnome panel i have the shortcuts to launch different apps
they all worked when i put them there now the sometimes work sometimes not

just kinda .......... dang
annoying

after starting this thread i saw in the similar threads :
back in 05 someone runnig FC4 had a similar problem and deleted thes files and found that that helped , kinda

.gconfd
.gnome
.gnome2_private
.gnome_private
.gqviewrc
.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
.gconf
.gnome2
.gnome-desktop
.nautilus


these files will regen after reboot rite?
may have to repopulate my shortcuts and stuff
but shouldnt make large problems rite?


Edit

ok i moved the files in my home folder that were listed above i just made a folder named gnomecrap
and put them there
restarted F10
came up and the login/user signin screen wasnt there
pushed pwer button and the start/restart/hibernate screen came up
I chose restart

ok now i can log back in
sure enuff all my little launchers are gone from gnome panels
got em all in place
the same three applets crash
and now when firefox crashed it logged me out
back to sign in screen

dang it

the .gnome files in your home file ARE safe to remove .But your settings will be reset

first try making a new user and see if the NEW user has the same problems

PS. every folder and most files in your home folder beginning with a " . " - dot -( hidden ) will be auto remade if deleted

what driver are you using for your 3d card and is it ati or nvidia

if ati there drivers are p.o.s. (< not plight words ) and may be the problen
if ati i would use the fglx driver that the community has made ( opensource driver)and not ati's catalysis.

also have you turned on the "compiz" desktop affects , if the 3d driver's config file(xorg.conf) is wrong that could cause the problems.

how would i find out which drivers i am using?

what is your card and what did you install ?
to find out what your 3d card is run this in the terminal
i get this
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

i am surprised you have a built in pseudo 3d chip on the mobo with a 64 bit computer ,and not a full 3d card .
well fedora will have selected to use the intel driver . That is built in to fedora .
you might want to take a look at this post about intel chips
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=207320

ah man
thanks
but i have reloaded my box each of the last four weekends and some of the days in between

a stable operating system , even for hobbyists, shouldnt be this difficult

i dont plan on reloading again for a few months

thanks tho

well this IS fedora we are talking about here!
the definition of fedora should read
fedora = f.o.r.d. ( i own a 302 1968 ford mustang ) -- Fix Or Repair Daily --

didnt use to be that way
7 & 8 were solid as a rock
once ya got em up and going

guess my patience has gotten thin