console/fbcommand wont open in fluxbox

bioe007 · 02-28-2007, 03:35 PM

Hi all- this problem is on #2 in my sig

Running fluxbox and have dropline-gnome installed, i like to use gnome-terminal. However after tweaking some stuff in my fluxbox style, and gkrellm2 theme I can not seem to do anything in fluxbox anymore...

When I try to run gnome-terminal it does not open, I get an error, that does not show until I exit flux:
<ed-snip>
I tried cat'ing this error into a file but afraid I didn't get much useful information.

<ed-later, got better, the full error is below, from when I try gnome-terminal in fluxbox>

Code:

The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error.

This probably reflects a bug in the program.

The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
(Details: serial 993 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;    that is, you will receive
the error a while after causing it.;    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line;
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful; backtrace from your debugger if you
break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Initializing gnome-mount extension
seahorse nautilus module initialized
** (nautilus:3391): WARNING **: Throbber fallback animation not found either
** (nautilus:3391): WARNING **: Throbber animation not found
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
      ..
      ..
      ..
xscreensaver: 13:36:01: initial effective uid/gid was root/users (0/100)
xscreensaver: 13:36:01: running as perry/users (1000/100)

will keep trying and post more, as I get better

any ideas?

also I try to run the fluxbox command and it also fails to work, though I don't see any error when I exit fluxbox.

I can so far run firefox, but gedit seems to work, but can not seem to save changes to files. ???

I had thought the last thing I did was to add gkrellm to the slitlist and change startup to gkrellm -w &, but I have since removed gkrellm completely (from flux startup), and still I get the same error.

One other thing I did was to add my USB drive to gkrellm, but I wouldn't think thats still the problem since its not running?

also seems to be some problem with nautilus too?

*wierd thing* this machine fails to get into the lilo screen if a usb stick is plugged in. never noticed that before, and not sure if any of this is related, i'm pretty much dumbfounded.

bioe007 · 02-28-2007, 08:10 PM

* don't know why I didnt try this already, but xterm does work, when I load from the fluxbox menu.

any ideas here?

Ilgar · 02-28-2007, 11:39 PM

gkrellm theme must be irrelevant, in that case we're left with the tweak to the fluxbox style. So you can start with witching to a different style (a syntax error in the style file shouldn't cause application crashes, but who knows...).

bioe007 · 03-01-2007, 12:20 AM

Hiya Ilgar!

I think when we last spoke I promised to go off and break something else.. well at least I'm a man of my word

yeah, I tried that.

Switched to a couple of the 'stock' fluxbox styles, also double and triple checked my own for syntax errors, didn't find anything.

Then I was left to the USB thing, so I tried commenting out my:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

line in fstab, still no luck.

then I thought: maybe I was in the /mnt/usb directory when I shutdown gnome-terminal last? (no idea why that should matter)

so I plugged the usb stick in and re-tried it, still not any different.

also, rxvt still seems to work.

I'm wondering if somehow I screwed up some gnome thing? Because other progs seem to be doing ok, but the two gnome things I do use regularly (gedit and gnome-terminal) are either acting screwy or not working..

I'm stuck on what to look for next.

bioe007 · 03-02-2007, 12:05 AM

so I bump this with a bit of new information...

I did it again... to machine #1 in my sig. Similar setup, have dropline installed but use only fluxbox.

I was screwing around with some theme files and can not get:

rootCommand: wmsetbg ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/myBkgrnd.jpg

to work, so I thought, well maybe its that pesky .fluxbox/init file screwing things up, so I commented out the !rootCommand: in my init file, restart flux and whamo - gnome-terminal is dead.

now can anyone plllleeease tell me how to fix it? I went back and looked at the init file but the commented line has been changed back to uncommented. ??

ko.. i'm stupid. it is working now