R.P. IceWM

[LiNuts]

I have just been reading the boards about IceWM not being developed anymore,(and i use it as my main WM). so i thought that as i have Gnome installed, i will have a look at it. (never really bothered with it before), I must have run over a chinaman, because when i select Gnome it starts to boot then throws me back to the login prompt.

I checked a file in my ~/ called gnome-errors, and this is what it had in it.

/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "UMASK" is "022"
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option ULIMIT
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option MAIL_DIR
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: /etc/login.defs: "MAIL_DIR" is "/var/spool/mail"
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: using /etc/X11/Xsession.options for options
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/X11/Xsession.options for option allow-user-resources
/etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/X11/Xsession.options for option allow-user-modmap

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
SESSION_MANAGER=local/libranet:/tmp/.ICE-unix/964

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkOptionMenu'

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkoptionmenu.c: line 248 (gtk_option_menu_set_history): assertion `option_menu != NULL' failed.
Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 1004, errno = 0

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I thought it might have something to do with my XFree86 setup, so i reconfigured that, but it is still the same.

Any help appreciated
Cheers
LiNuts

BTW: my apologies to any chinamen, for my reference to you
;D

[JimH]

Can you reproduce this problem in runlevel 3 instead of using GDM and runlevel 5?

Did you select a locale setting in GDM before you logged in?

Is there a default locale set in your gdm.conf? Iis it set correctly?


Does this workaround allow you to start GNOME?

In runlevel 3 at the console prompt before you type startx:

export LC_ALL=C

Jim H

[LiNuts]

JimH,
Many thanks for the reply, that did it, the locale was not set, I did as you suggested "export LC_ALL=C" and now i can use Gnome.

Bloody hell i have a lot to learn about linux :'(

Cheers
LiNuts

[Spot]

Bloody hell i have a lot to learn about linux :'(

heh..don't we all

[JimH]

Many thanks for the reply, that did it, the locale was not set, I did as you suggested "export LC_ALL=C" and now i can use Gnome.

Did you recheck you locale setting? The "export LC_ALL=C" isn't really a fix it is really just a work around to get it working.

Jim H

[LiNuts]

How do i recheck the locale settings ?.
Cheers
LiNuts

[JimH]

How do i recheck the locale settings ?.
Cheers
LiNuts

Under the System menu there should be an entry "Locale Chooser".

Or in a console window: locale_config

You also should check you gdm.conf and see what the default locale is set too.

Jim H