[gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

[gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I've been running Gnome for awhile on all my machines. In setting
up my new AMD64 it was a natural choice for me. However I am getting a
strange message:

1) When I first log in after a boot I get a message "I have detected a
panel already running, and will now exit". I answer OK 1 time and it
stops.

2) If I log out and back in I get the same message but I have to
answer OK 11 times to get the message to go away.

3) If I run the Gnome Failsafe session I do not get the message at all.

   While this is going on I've looked and do not see a gnome-panel
process running.

   None of this happens on any of my other machines but they are all
32 bit, either Intel P4 or Athlon XP.

   I have tried emerging other versions of gnome-panel and gnome-light
with no effect. I have searched the forums but don't see any
solutions. I Do see a few others that have more or less the same
problem.

   Any ideas where I might look for more info before reporting a bug?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

[Michael Crute]

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On 9/1/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I first log in after a boot I get a message "I have detected a
> panel already running, and will now exit". I answer OK 1 time and it
> stops.
> 
> 
I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by purging /tmp 
and all the config files in my home directory. There is probably a better 
way but it was a new install and I didn't have my files on it anyhow. So try 
creating a new user with a new home directory and see if that fixes things.

-Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

[Jules Colding]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 00:07 -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> On 9/1/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>         When I first log in after a boot I get a message "I have
>         detected a
>         panel already running, and will now exit". I answer OK 1 time
>         and it
>         stops.
>         
> 
> I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by
> purging /tmp and all the config files in my home directory. There is
> probably a better way but it was a new install and I didn't have my
> files on it anyhow. So try creating a new user with a new home
> directory and see if that fixes things.

I am having the same annoying problem and tried creating a new user but
the new user has the same problem. This is on amd64 too.

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  jules


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