Gnome sessiosn doesn't start

eantoranz · 07-05-2005, 08:10 AM

OK. Will try tomorrow (It's a holiday!!!

).

eantoranz · 07-07-2005, 03:09 PM

There's no /tmp/.ICE-unix directory. Is that the reason why it fails?

akudewan · 07-08-2005, 01:27 AM

Its not there? Hmm...I think your computer is haunted :P

If its not there, then it should have not given the root ownership error. Are you sure you did "ls -a" and saw all the files? (Since you have approx 597 posts, I'm sure you must have checked)

You know what...get another window manager....like XFCE or something. Then try to start Nautulis and gnome-panel. Just a suggestion, coz I'm really out of ideas...

eantoranz · 07-08-2005, 08:37 AM

You see?! Sometimes I feel like giving up my Linux Guru badge.

I think what I did to find out if the directory was there or not was correct to tell..... however, I didn't do a ls -a.... so as soon as I log into the computer, I'll let you know. (I feel kind of ashamed, you know

).

Anyway... will get back to you soon.

simonnz · 07-09-2005, 03:38 AM

I too was having this problem. I fixed it by editing ~/.vnc/xstartup and changing it to startup gnome-session.

eantoranz · 07-09-2005, 08:44 AM

Really? :O How did you do it? can you be more specific? :-)

simonnz · 07-09-2005, 02:30 PM

Before I made the changes, all I would get was a grey background with a gnome-terminal window (and sawfish window manager). This is what my ~/.vnc/xstartup looks like now:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
/usr/bin/gnome-session &

YMMV, but it fixed my problem :-D

eantoranz · 07-09-2005, 02:36 PM

OK.... I'll be feeding back on monday.

eantoranz · 07-11-2005, 03:11 PM

Give me my badge back

I knew I couldn't lose my badge that easily.

Code:

ls -a /tmp/
.  ..  .winbindd

See? There's no such directory. What's the next step?

I'll try editing the VNC configuration file.

eantoranz · 07-11-2005, 03:17 PM

OK.... I edited the file just like that... now I don't get the gone-terminal....Now I get... get...

... I get nothing. That's what I get. Just a gray screen (on VNC).

These are the two processes that are started by vnc:

Code:

 9169 pts/0    S      0:00 Xtightvnc :1 -desktop X -auth /home/antoranz/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 -rfbwait 120000 -rfbauth /home/antoranz/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ -co /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
 9179 pts/0    S      0:00 /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 13

And this is vnc's log:

Code:

$ cat .vnc/proxy\:1.log
11/07/05 16:14:15 Xvnc version 3.3.tight1.2.9
11/07/05 16:14:15 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
11/07/05 16:14:15 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Constantin Kaplinsky.
11/07/05 16:14:15 All Rights Reserved.
11/07/05 16:14:15 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC
11/07/05 16:14:15 See http://www.tightvnc.com for TightVNC-specific information
11/07/05 16:14:15 Desktop name 'X' (proxy:1)
11/07/05 16:14:15 Protocol version supported 3.3
11/07/05 16:14:15 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/' not found - ignoring
xrdb: No such file or directory
xrdb: can't open file '/home/antoranz/.Xresources'
_IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created.
_IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.ICE-unix) failed, errno = 2
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local

** (gnome-session:9176): WARNING **: Cannot establish any listening sockets

If I kill the vnc session, gconfd survives it.

eantoranz · 07-11-2005, 03:27 PM

Got it! (at least on VNC)

I created the .ICE-unix directory under /tmp, and set the owner to root. That was it. I was able to start the gnome session after that. I'll have to try with the monitor (:0 session). I'll keep you posted.

Thank you so far!