Xorg - no taskbar/dock/panel - HOARY

[Ian Hogben]

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Gah! I am just about to give up. Out of sheer desperation, I was going
to try removing all non-Ubuntu gnome bits that I had installed from the
marillat repository. Only it's hard for me to see which packages are
Ubuntu-official and which are not. There used to be a little ubuntu icon
next to the package in Synaptic which clearly showed me which was "safe"
and which was not. These icons are gone; it's now a lot harder for me to
know which packages I can safely remove, and which ones I cannot.

So Plan Q (I have gone through plans A to P...) is to do a reinstall of
all packages in my apt-get cache. Can synaptic do this for me? Like a
"complete refresh all" choice? It would be a good idea... Failing that,
can I do an "apt-get install *" and trust that it's going to do what I
want it to do?

Failing THAT, is there a way that I can update all the ubuntu packages
into a fresh new hoary install CD? I'm getting to the point of not
caring any more.

Just to reiterate, does anyone out there know what the following message
in my .xsession-errors file means:
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1

Thanks,

Ian.

Ian Hogben wrote:
| Hello, list,
|
| I have had a problem with my ubuntu config for a couple weeks, but I
| thought that it was my fault for playing with NTFS write support.  I
| removed all the extra cruft that I installed before things went sour,
| and still no juice. I'm stuck. Incidentally, NTFS-rw is still not
| happening, so if anyone has hints on that... ;-)
|
| When I log in to the desktop, I don't have any taskbar/dock/panel or
| whatever it is called. Just a blank desktop background. The only thing I
| can do at all is to right-click on the desktop and open a terminal, and
| from there manually type in the command-line args for whatever apps I
| want. It doesn't help much with things like Azureus and Apollon and Gaim
| that all stay in the taskbar. :-/
|
| I have hunted around a bit, and the best clue I can find is in
| ~/.xsession-errors. The last lines are get are pasted below. Does anyone
| know where I would go next to investigate?
|
| -Ian.
|
| /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
| /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w
| /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
| ":0" "ian"
| /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
| SESSION_MANAGER=local/hogbender:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8064
| Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
| Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
|
| (nautilus:8171): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module
| `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so'
| (/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so: cannot open shared object
| file: No such file or directory)
|
| (nautilus:8171): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module
| `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so'
| (/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so: cannot open shared object
| file: No such file or directory)
| Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
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