[csw-users] gnome is broken horribly?

[Brian Ingold]

Hello all - I am writing for some help with my recent install of the gnome
desktop environment from blastwave.

I should start by saying that this is the first build of gnome I've ever
used (excepting what was pre-installed in redhat, suse, ubuntu).  I really
want to use Solaris though, as I have been an Oracle DBA & shell programmer
on Solaris 8 for a few years now.

This is my first home install of Solaris, and follows our first load of v10
at work.  I have to say that as a black-box I love it...

That having been said, let me say that the out-of-the-box experience with
gnome so far has been horrid.  I really like blastwave, but at this point I
could Never recommend the functionality of their gnome 2.14 install (KDE
worked wonderfully, btw, but it's just too busy for me) - would it work any
differently from gnome.org?

Before I attempt to get into the technical info (I Am asking for Help), let
me say that it seems I don't know how to troubleshoot an incomplete gnome
startup(?).

>From the first start, the clock applet failed to load.  I've read a bit
about issues with the clock applet and Evolution/Evolution web calendar, but
haven't found anything about how to correct.

Firefox won't save all settings. I've also read a very few posts about
Firefox 1.5.0.7 not keeping some settings (for example: not knowing that it
is the default browser).  But again, haven't found anything about how to
correct.

Rhythmbox crashes on startup too....

Evolution will not start from shortcut.  If I try from command line, it
tells me it's Killing old version of Wombat before a popup advises me of an
Error: Cannot access the Email and Calendar shell.

Startup works for me like this: the splash screen progress stops at "The
Panel" - for about 1-2 minutes- then disappears.  The desktop appears
normal.

If I click on the splash screen during startup, it disappears to show
menu/panel bars but no desktop (just a black screen).  Again, after ~2
minutes, the desktop appears.

I don't know what to do here - will someone please assist/educate?

Brian

root at AMD64:~# uname -a
SunOS AMD64 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc
root at AMD64:~# cat /etc/release
                        Solaris 10 6/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86
           Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                             Assembled 09 June 2006
root at AMD64:~# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -U
Getting catalog...
--13:55:14--  http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable/i386/5.10/catalog

           => `catalog'
Resolving ibiblio.org... 152.46.7.80
Connecting to ibiblio.org|152.46.7.80|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 191,943 (187K) [text/plain]

100%[==================================================================================>]
191,943      107.60K/s

13:55:16 (107.39 KB/s) - `catalog' saved [191943/191943]

gpg: Signature made Thu Dec 14 23:44:50 2006 CST using DSA key ID E12E9D2F
gpg: Good signature from "Distribution Manager <dm at blastwave.org>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the
owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 0BF0 9891 9340 86DC EBE3  DDFF 06A1 ED1B E12E 9D2F
Updating catalog file
/var/pkg-get/catalog-ibiblio.org updated

--13:55:17--  http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable/i386/5.10/descriptions

           => `descriptions'
Resolving ibiblio.org... 152.46.7.80
Connecting to ibiblio.org|152.46.7.80|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 85,597 (84K) [text/plain]

100%[==================================================================================>]
85,597        63.74K/s

13:55:18 (63.58 KB/s) - `descriptions' saved [85597/85597]

Updated description file
root at AMD64:~# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -c | grep -v Not | grep -v SAME

# (From site http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable )
       software                    localrev                   remoterev
root at AMD64:~#
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