Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu issue.. (X windows)

[Michael Fox <fox.michael@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:20:44 +1000, Craige McWhirter
<craige@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 11:14 +1000, Michael Fox wrote:
> > Anyone know why the X windows session as shown in the small jpeg
> > attached image is failing to load... the screen grab shows the point
> > in which it just appears to stop and go no further... I get a sound
> > played and then that fades out and I am left with the screen grab.
> 
> We'll need some log files. Start by looking at this file:
> 
> ~/.xsession-errors
> 
> Anything going fnky in there?

Yep, see below. If only I knew about this file. Ah well my skills with
X are non existant. Used only cli for the last 7 years ;)

extract;

ubuntu-io:/home/michaelf# more .xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -
u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "michaelf"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/ubuntu-io:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6645
WARNING: No window manager can be found.
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1