[PLUG] It just happened again

wes plug at the-wes.com
Fri Dec 4 14:49:20 UTC 2009


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:57 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:20:29 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>
> >Yup. Rebooted. Logged in. No metacity.
> >
> >This is Fedora 11 with Gnome 2.26.3.
> >
> >Since the last time I rebooted and logged in (a couple hours ago) I tried
> to
> >get Rhythmbox to see the playlist file from Rhythmbox on my desktop
> computer
> >(unsuccessfully), installed Banshee, uninstalled Virtualbox from Sun,
> installed
> >Virtualbox OSE. Virtualbox OSE would not start any guests until I
> rebooted. So
> >I rebooted, and then I landed without a window manager.
> >
> >This is the fifth time this has happened.
> >
> >(1) and (2) were Debian Testing, (3) was Fedora 12, (4) was OpenSuse 11.2.
> >
> >But Virtualbox OSE does start my guests. One problem solved, bigger
> problem
> >created.
> >
> >As soon as I send this I'm going to uninstall Virtualbox OSE and reboot.
>
> Having deleted Virtualbox OSE and rebooted, I still have no window manager.
> So
> it wasn't Virtualbox OSE that caused it.
>
>
I'm not saying I know anything, but I would not make the assumption that
Virtualbox is not causing the issue just because it doesn't fix itself when
you uninstall it. It is entirely possible that some config file is mucked
with by Virtualbox that is not un-mucked when uninstalling.

-wes



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