[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome session start problem: gnome-panel not visible

[Jonathan Adams]

What do you have set under "Appearance" -> "Visual Effects" ?

I had issues a while back where I could no longer run compiz on Illumos
(Intel based graphics) and had to turn it off to get the desktop working
correctly ...

Jon


On 4 July 2014 10:33, Carsten Grzemba <grzemba at contac-dt.de> wrote:

> On a new oi151a9 installation I have the problem that on gnome session
> start, the gnome-panel is not visible. I get only the green backdrop, but I
> can start a terminal with right mouse click context menu.
> if I run in the terminal:
> $ gnome-panel --replace
> all is fine.
>
> What is going wrong on session start? .xsession-erros logs only:
>
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent --
> gnome-session_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
>
> ** (gnome-settings-daemon:2066): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is
> too frequent, skipping...
>
> ** (gnome-settings-daemon:2066): WARNING **: Call to screen_info_new is
> too frequent, skipping...
> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b/ssh
> GNOME_KEYRING_PID=2068
> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b/ssh
> GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-R41G3b/ssh
> /usr/bin/dispswitch exiting: too few (less than 2) or too many (more than
> 2) crtcs: 1
>
> ** (gnome-power-manager:2085): WARNING **: DBUS error: Could not get owner
> of name 'org.gnome.ScreenSaver': no such name
> ** (gnome-power-manager:2085): DEBUG: proxy is NULL, maybe the daemon
> responsible for org.gnome.ScreenSaver is not running?
> ** Message: Initializing gksu extension...
> Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
>
> (nautilus:2075): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 2468:
> assertion `format != NULL' failed
> -
>
> and
> $ ptree `pgrep gnome-session`
> 1427 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
>  1429 /usr/lib/gdm-simple-slave --display-id
> /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Displa
>  1732 /usr/lib/gdm-session-worker
>  2027 gnome-session
>  2046 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
>  2071 metacity
>  2072 gnome-panel
>  2075 nautilus
>  2078 /usr/bin/xscreensaver -nosplash
>  2083 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/lib/updatemanagernotifier
>  2084 /usr/perl5/bin/perl /usr/bin/desktop-print-management-applet
>  2090 /usr/lib/ospm/ospm-applet
>  2085 gnome-power-manager
>  2089 /usr/lib/nwam-manager
>  2093 python2.6 /usr/lib/time-slider-notify
>  2094 /usr/lib/evolution/2.30/evolution-alarm-notify
>
> which looks normal for me.
>
> Any help appreciated.
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