I upgraded to Gutsy yesterday, and I've been having assorted problems with Gnome lately.

My main problem is that the contents of windows that I open under Gnome are invisible about 75% of the time; No text, no pictures/icons, nothing. (compiz fusion is running, and because of this problem I can't disable it to see if that helps) I just get the window frame, but it's empty. This affects both programs and the various configuration tools in the Gnome menus, although opening the same window 3-4 times sometimes makes everything show up. The problem makes Gnome practically unusable. I have KDE installed as well, and that works fine.

When Gnome is loading from the login screen (KDM) , I sometimes get warning messages, such as "Trash has quit unexpectedly" and things to that effect. When these show up, clicking any option on the error dialog makes the Gnome menu bars (top and bottom) flicker off and on indefinitely, and my only option is to kill the X server. I had this problem even under Feisty, but at the time I was hoping that upgrading to Gutsy would fix it.

Also, while running Gnome, my CPU usage is at or close to 100% most of the time.

Strangely enough, these problems affect only my account. There are other users on this machine and I can use Gnome with other accounts with none of these problems. (Compiz fusion and everything else works great) This makes me think that these problems have something to do with my account instead of the Gnome packages themselves. Is there a way to fix this?

Sounds broken to me.

I'd either delete your account's temp files/config files, or delete the account and remake it.

I've installed Gnome Ubuntu yesterday, so far I like it, but I think KDE has more customization abilities that I like. Plus everything is organized better in KDE. I do like Gnome's look though, and most of the themes and icons and such come out for Gnome.

I'm at a bind, since right now I run both KDE and Gnome, my computer has been acting weird.

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Also, don't you make a backup of your install when you use linux? I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to just reinstall everything. [/windowsuser]

I actually went through to try and put the ******* in the rocket...
I dropped it down the rocket shaft...
D:

I just back up my home directory.

I'd rather not reinstall if I can help it, since I've finally got things the way I like them, apart from this problem.

I tried making a new user account, and many of the problems transferred over.

Deleting all of the references to Gnome in my home dir did nothing to fix the problems, either.

I think I should just completely purge and reinstall Gnome at this point.

Purging and reinstalling did nothing.

Compiz-fusion seems to be the problem. (To me, it's quite unstable at this point) Once I disabled that, everything went back to how it should be. Old-school Beryl worked better anyway.

The whole world has problems with 7.10 it seems. I can't access any of my other partitions now. I've heard that Ubuntu can, but KDE can't for some reason. Just looking fstab I find no no reference to my Windows partition (sda2) whatsoever, so that may be the problem.

Dolphin randomly screws up bookmarks.xml, even though I have no bookmarks, and displays an error every time I exit. Temp fixed by deleting the offending file.

Beyond this and the install issue I previously went over in IRC the other day, it's fine.

I'm fine and dandy over here, only one problem:

Flash has no sound. WTF ANGRIES

I've had no problems yet, other than I've been unable to use my other monitor, but that's a minor annoyance for now.

"hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000" is what I get when I try to mount a partition. Thoughts?

The contents of /etc/fstab do not necessarily reflect the complete state of your system. If an entry for /dev/sda2 does not exist, add it. This should do it:

...and then mount it with this;

Check dmesg for errors.
Unmount it with this;

...if it complains that the device is busy, try this;

...and run kill -9 $PID on any program it lists.

Xinerama is what you need. Its fairly trivial to set up.


Try it as root.

Try a newer version of Flash.

I'm glad I upgraded only one of my machines at zero-day instead of all of them. I'm going to keep this one on Gutsy, since I'm hoping canonical will get some of the most common bugs fixed soon.

Video-out (for projectors, etc) on my Ubuntu 7.04 laptop has never worked right. Do you think this would fix it?

Xinerama is the LAST choice. It does not support OpenGL across both monitors.

If you have nvidia, you want to use Twinview, it's pretty simple to set up (install binary drivers, then run nvidia-settings on root).

ATI has a similar system, although I'm not familiar with it.

Upon mounting I get:

Leave a blank line at the end of /etc/fstab. That should fix that problem and allow you to mount.


Also, make sure that there is a folder called "Windows" in the media directory. If not, make one as root (sudo mkdir /media/Windows/) Linux is case sensitive, btw, so windows != Windows.

Finally Got it, though it ended up a little different than your explanation...somehow...

Edit: Actually, no. It's not different. It's just that /media/Windows is sort of taken but it's not a folder. After I figured out what I was doing I rearranged it to /mnt/sda2 as well as one for /mnt/sda1 (Dell Utility Partition that will probably never be used.).

I moved my home directory to a different partition (screwing up my installation in the process) and reinstalled right before leaving town for the weekend. Guess I'll have to wait and see if I have any problems when I get back.