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Re: [e-users] e 0.16.5 no longer starts up (yes, did RTFM, FAQ, X working...)
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From: Tom J. <to...@wp...> - 2002-05-23 00:28:19
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> Yes that is a posibility > but i recall that E used to output any problems with themes and default > to the brushed-metal theme Yes, after rm -r'ing the entire ~/.enlightenment directory, it did default back to brushed metal. > and as for the --erase it should be rpm --erase > enlightenment-0.16.5-1.i386 not rpm --erase > enlightenment-0.16.5-1.i386.rpm oops, my bad. An rpm -q enlightenment showed e 0.16.5-1 installed twice! so I removed with rpm --erase --allmatches enlightenment.0.16.5-1 and then rpm -q showed none installed. However, after re-installing (rpm -Uvh e...0.16.5-1 etc) same result. Very strange. I'll keep looking. Thanks for your suggestions! tomj > > > > On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 00:26, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > > One more possibilty?? Did you install any system wide themes?? > > Theoretically a system wide theme stored in /usr/share/enlightenment or > > such could cause the problem you are seeing and not be effected by rpm > > during uninstallation/upgrade nor by your removing .enlightenment. > > > > Although I don't know specifics about how to do this, it might be > > helpful to launch X directly from the command line (aka not with startx) > > and then run E on top of that...in which case you can track the console > > output of E to see if it is specifying any errors on load.... > > > > One other place to check is .xsession-errors, though I don't know if E > > output would be collected there. Finding a way to redirect any of the > > output errors might be a start to a solution....... > > > > Good luck. > > > > http://danconia.org/ > > > > > > > > Tom Jennings wrote: > > > I've been running 0.16.5 for some time (a year?), and just started > > > having this problem two days ago. I'm stumped. I've read the man > > > page, the non-existent www FAQ, and tried to read the archive, but > > > it says "not available, browse" but archives don't seem visible. > > > ALl other doc links take me to freshmeat (eh?). > > > > > > I'm running linux 2.4.9-31 on a sony vaio laptop. The system is up > > > to date and running with no known problems. > > > > > > When I start enlightenment (via startx) the theme background loads, > > > the "starting enlightenment" thermometer runs up to 100%, closes, > > > then the screen is left with the background image, the two bars > > > across the middle and the X cursor (a big black "X") in the center > > > of the screen. The mouse moves. No other activity. > > > CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE twice and X terminates. > > > > > > twm runs fine, and I've had no problems with the X server otherwise. > > > > > > Things I've done, in order: > > > > > > *** shutdown, enter SETUP, load default settings, save, reboot. > > > > > > *** (Try previous linux 2.4.9-21 as well as -31.) > > > > > > *** rm -r .enlightenment to force a clean start, no change. > > > > > > *** rpm -Uv --force enlightenment-0.16.5-1.i386.rpm, no change. > > > (--erase says "not installed"?) > > > > > > Still not working. Any ideas? I'm desperate!! > > > > > > tomj > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > > > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > > enl...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > enl...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > > > |