Can't start Gnome anymore after an upgrade

[martin benavides]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 12:46 -0600, martin benavides wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 11:41 +0200, Francois Armand wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After having upgrade my new ubuntu (very good distro) yesterday, I have
> > a problem to start gnome : the ubuntu splash screen appears on the blue
> > background, but nothing else occurs. I mean that no one icon appears
> > under "ubuntu".
> > I think it's the same bug as explains in the message "Pb starting gnome
> > with a particular user" in archive list.
> > 
> > I try to remove .gnome* from my home but nothing change. I also try to
> > create a new user but he has the same problem. I even try to reinstall
> > gnome's packages. I eventually install xfce which works fine.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > 
> > PS : exuse me for my ugly english, I hope one can understand it...
> > 
> > 
> A workarraound that i found to "fix" this is , enter a terminal
> and ps awux |grep bonobo-activation
> Kill the process and gnome will go on.
> 
> 
I think i found what's stopping gnome to load, i did two things:

1) stoped sound server to start on startup. (compuer/desktop
preferences/sound).
2) I've previously unloaded snd-pcm-oss and snd-seq-oss , in
/etc/modules . so I've loaded them again.

When i restarted my gnome starts normally :)