Hello all - I am writing for some help with my recent install of the gnome desktop environment from blastwave.<br>
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I should start by saying that this is the first <span style="font-style: italic;">build </span>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. <br><br>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...
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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
<a href="http://gnome.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">gnome.org</a>?<br><br>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(?).
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>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.<br><br>Firefox won't save all settings. I've also read a very few posts about Firefox
<a href="http://1.5.0.7" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">1.5.0.7</a> not keeping some settings (for example: not knowing that it is the default browser). But again, haven't found anything about how to correct.
<br><br>Rhythmbox crashes on startup too....
<br> <br>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.<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.<br><br>I don't know what to do here - will someone please assist/educate?
<br><br>Brian<br><br>
root@AMD64:~# uname -a<br>
SunOS AMD64 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc<br>
root@AMD64:~# cat /etc/release<br>
Solaris 10 6/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86<br>
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<br>
Use is subject to license terms.<br>
Assembled 09 June 2006<br>
root@AMD64:~# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -U<br>
Getting catalog...<br>
--13:55:14-- <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable/i386/5.10/catalog" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable/i386/5.10/catalog
</a><br>
=> `catalog'<br>
Resolving ibiblio.org... <a href="http://152.46.7.80" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">152.46.7.80</a><br>
Connecting to ibiblio.org|152.46.7.80|:80... connected.<br>
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK<br>
Length: 191,943 (187K) [text/plain]<br>
<br>
100%[==================================================================================>]
191,943 107.60K/s<br>
<br>
13:55:16 (107.39 KB/s) - `catalog' saved [191943/191943]<br>
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gpg: Signature made Thu Dec 14 23:44:50 2006 CST using DSA key ID E12E9D2F<br>
gpg: Good signature from "Distribution Manager <<a href="mailto:dm@blastwave.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dm@blastwave.org</a>>"<br>
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!<br>
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.<br>
Primary key fingerprint: 0BF0 9891 9340 86DC EBE3 DDFF 06A1 ED1B E12E 9D2F<br>
Updating catalog file<br>
/var/pkg-get/catalog-<a href="http://ibiblio.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ibiblio.org</a> updated<br>
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--13:55:17-- <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable/i386/5.10/descriptions" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable/i386/5.10/descriptions
</a><br>
=> `descriptions'<br>
Resolving ibiblio.org... <a href="http://152.46.7.80" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">152.46.7.80</a><br>
Connecting to ibiblio.org|152.46.7.80|:80... connected.<br>
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK<br>
Length: 85,597 (84K) [text/plain]<br>
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100%[==================================================================================>]
85,597 63.74K/s<br>
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13:55:18 (63.58 KB/s) - `descriptions' saved [85597/85597]<br>
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Updated description file<br>
root@AMD64:~# /opt/csw/bin/pkg-get -c | grep -v Not | grep -v SAME<br>
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# (From site <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/unstable</a> )<br>
software
localrev
remoterev<br>
root@AMD64:~#<br>
<br>