Bug #1943 workaround didn't work; may be a different bug...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:03:14AM -0400, Ben Novack wrote:

> My chronology:
> 
> 1) I had a working desktop under the Warty prerelease CD - sound
> included - although no net access due to not having xsupplicant, and
> usb drive mounting not working.
> 2) I performed an upgrade at a friend's cable modem.
> 3) Thereafter, when logging into Gnome, I would be presented with a
> blank blue background and a cursor, and nothing else. It looked a lot
> like bug #1943, gnome not starting if sound hardware not detected.
> 4) I performed another upgrade via the 10-5 daily CD to get the
> patched control panel, but that didn't fix things.
> 5) I implemented the workaround Matt Zimmerman cited in the bug #1943 - namely,
> 
> gconftool2 -s -t bool /schemas/desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false
> 
> That didn't fix things either. So I may not in fact be dealing with
> #1943. Any ideas?

Send the output from:

ps uxf
cat ~/.xsession-errors

when it is in the broken state.

-- 
 - mdz