I've been running CentOS 5 since release on a couple of servers with few problems. Last night I tried it as a workstation for the first time. It booted up fine and I could log into X. I then ran pup to install all available updates and shut down afterwards to load the new kernel. (I use yum on the servers.) This morning I start up on the new kernel and after logging in at the Gnome prompt, I get a message that Nautilus can't start.
I'm not an X guru, being mostly a server driver over ssh. What's the best way to debug this?
(I have lots of experience debugging, just not with X.)
The first place I would start would be opening an xterm and trying to start Nautilus from the prompt. Look for any weird error messages.
Geoff
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-----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:12:07 To:CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Nautilus won't start
I've been running CentOS 5 since release on a couple of servers with few problems. Last night I tried it as a workstation for the first time. It booted up fine and I could log into X. I then ran pup to install all available updates and shut down afterwards to load the new kernel. (I use yum on the servers.) This morning I start up on the new kernel and after logging in at the Gnome prompt, I get a message that Nautilus can't start.
I'm not an X guru, being mostly a server driver over ssh. What's the best way to debug this?
(I have lots of experience debugging, just not with X.) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
--On Monday, September 10, 2007 10:19 PM +0000 gjgowey@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
The first place I would start would be opening an xterm and trying to start Nautilus from the prompt. Look for any weird error messages.
I'm now suspecting a hardware issue. After a reboot I got the normal desktop. Now yum is mysteriously failing with a missing library.