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    From Frank Winkler@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 13 11:53:38 2019
    On 04/ 1/19 04:16 PM, I wrote:

    >Actually, it was part of the question if and how it's possible to
    >restart single components ;) ... I sort of thought that GNOME is a
    >monolithic thing and I was wondering what I can do in such a situation.
    >
    >Thanks for clarification. I'll try that next time and report here ;) ...

    These days, the window manager crashed again. I didn't find a way to get
    the session back to life. So I logged out and in (losing all
    connections). Shortly after the new login, just the top panel froze
    (which I never had before) and indeed, I was able to get it back by just killing its process. But what can I do when the window manager crashes
    and all windows lose their frames?

    Regards

    fw

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  • From Nemo@21:1/5 to Frank Winkler on Sat Dec 14 14:04:02 2019
    On 13/12/2019 05:53, Frank Winkler wrote:
    On 04/ 1/19 04:16 PM, I wrote:

    Actually, it was part of the question if and how it's possible to
    restart single components ;) ... I sort of thought that GNOME is a
    monolithic thing and I was wondering what I can do in such a situation.

    Thanks for clarification. I'll try that next time and report here ;) ...

    These days, the window manager crashed again. I didn't find a way to get
    the session back to life. So I logged out and in (losing all
    connections). Shortly after the new login, just the top panel froze
    (which I never had before) and indeed, I was able to get it back by just killing its process. But what can I do when the window manager crashes
    and all windows lose their frames?

    GNOME crashed on me last year (on my SB2500 runnind Solaris 10) and I
    have never recovered it. On the box itself, I run CDE, but mostly ssh
    in. Even gnome-cleanup did not help. Is there a short lucid manual
    describing GNOME on Solaris?

    N.


    Regards
    fw


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  • From YTC#1@21:1/5 to Nemo on Sun Dec 15 12:48:12 2019
    On 14/12/2019 19:04, Nemo wrote:
    On 13/12/2019 05:53, Frank Winkler wrote:
    On 04/ 1/19 04:16 PM, I wrote:

    ;Actually, it was part of the question if and how it's possible to
    ;restart single components ;) ... I sort of thought that GNOME is a
    ;monolithic thing and I was wondering what I can do in such a situation. >>  >
    ;Thanks for clarification. I'll try that next time and report here ;)
    ...

    These days, the window manager crashed again. I didn't find a way to get
    the session back to life. So I logged out and in (losing all
    connections). Shortly after the new login, just the top panel froze
    (which I never had before) and indeed, I was able to get it back by just
    killing its process. But what can I do when the window manager crashes
    and all windows lose their frames?

    GNOME crashed on me last year (on my SB2500 runnind Solaris 10) and I
    have never recovered it.  On the box itself, I run CDE, but mostly ssh
    in.  Even gnome-cleanup did not help.  Is there a short lucid manual describing GNOME on Solaris?

    Assuming it is a gnome config thing and not caused by you makeing any
    system changes, then just remove all the gnome files/dirs ?

    rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

    (I think that covers it)

    N.


    Regards
    fw





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  • From Nemo@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 16 10:41:09 2019
    On 15/12/2019 07:48, YTC#1 wrote:
    On 14/12/2019 19:04, Nemo wrote:
    On 13/12/2019 05:53, Frank Winkler wrote:
    [...]

    GNOME crashed on me last year (on my SB2500 runnind Solaris 10) and I
    have never recovered it. On the box itself, I run CDE, but mostly ssh
    in. Even gnome-cleanup did not help. Is there a short lucid manual
    describing GNOME on Solaris?

    Assuming it is a gnome config thing and not caused by you makeing any
    system changes, then just remove all the gnome files/dirs ?

    rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

    (I think that covers it)

    Thank you for the suggestion, Frank, but I have the same symptom. A
    small terminal appears in the upper-right corner of the screen and Gnome
    does not launch. Eventually, I remotely "pkill gnome". I have not made
    any system changes except upgrading Java regularly.

    N.

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