I’m continuing this as its own thread from here: Upgrade to Gnome 2.26 observations - openSUSE Forums (in case you need to see the history of this). Basically, everything works now except there’s no SUSE slab menu on the panel and Nautilus won’t start. It will start from terminal as su, but throwing up error messages and being unable to open network locations or anything but the Linux file system.
Any suggestions as to what I could do?
gminnerup wrote:
> I’m continuing this as its own thread from here: ‘Upgrade to Gnome 2.26
> observations - openSUSE Forums’ (http://tinyurl.com/n3dw3a) (in case you
> need to see the history of this).
O.k… I see the error message you are getting.
> Basically, everything works now except
> there’s no SUSE slab menu on the panel and Nautilus won’t start. It will
> start from terminal as su, but throwing up error messages and being
> unable to open network locations or anything but the Linux file system.
> Any suggestions as to what I could do?
As per gnome-terminal, I am not sure, but looks like this bug:
Bug 555745 ? Programs using Gconf fail if you start via “su”
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555745
And regarding Slab menu, can’t you just add it a new one? :-?
Greetings
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Camaleón
I’ve been adding several slab menus but they don’t appear - there’s just an empty bar on the panel where they should be. Adding a traditional Gnome menu, however, works…
As to the bug, I don’t really want to run Nautilus as su (not normally, anyway). I’d just like to be able to run it the normal way (when I try to start it from the Gnome menu I just get the spinning wheel for a while and then nothing). And even when I do get Nautilus to run from the terminal, I don’t get access to anything outside the Linux file system (the Windows partition, external USB drive, or network drives).
gminnerup wrote:
> I’ve been adding several slab menus but they don’t appear - there’s
> just an empty bar on the panel where they should be. Adding a
> traditional Gnome menu, however, works…
Try adding a new panel and get a new slab menu there. Does it work?
> As to the bug, I don’t really want to run Nautilus as su (not normally,
> anyway). I’d just like to be able to run it the normal way (when I try
> to start it from the Gnome menu I just get the spinning wheel for a
> while and then nothing). And even when I do get Nautilus to run from the
> terminal, I don’t get access to anything outside the Linux file system
> (the Windows partition, external USB drive, or network drives).
Do you have enabled “jexec” service?
I remember a problem with this service enabled in runlevel which prevented
users to access /home folder but not sure if this can be related to your
problem.
Anyway, have you try to create a new user and test these things while logged
in with the new user? Just to discard any problem with the settings of the
current one :-?
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
Yes, I’ve tried adding a new panel etc and no difference.
The new user idea sounds promising. Will try that when I’ve evaluated my latest experiment: installing KDE… Thought that if I’m likely to end up reinstalling anyway I might as well have a look at KDE4 first. Never liked it in the past, but who knows?
This is ridiculous… While I’m downloading the KDE files, the slab menu reappears and Nautilus starts to work too… Although I still can’t access external USB drive.
Is this a case of panic or what??? Literally the only thing I’ve done is to start the KDE download and open Virtualbox in another workspace.
gminnerup wrote:
> This is ridiculous… While I’m downloading the KDE files, the slab menu
> reappears and Nautilus starts to work too… Although I still can’t
> access external USB drive.
> Is this a case of panic or what??? Literally the only thing I’ve done
> is to start the KDE download and open Virtualbox in another workspace.
Gnome does not want you to go 
Well, these things happens. I don’t know what made the apps have started to
work, thought.
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
It didn’t last…
Tried to reproduce it this morning and I think I found a clue: the SUSE menu and Nautilus come back when I enable the external USB drive in Virtualbox XP (I then disable it again to make sure to be safe). Works till reboot.
But Nautilus still doesn’t work for network (coming up with dbus error) and external USB drive (permissions error)…
This should give us something to go on but I don’t know what?
OK, this is where I am now:
Gnome seems to work alright in most respects. except:
-
no SUSE slab menu and no Nautilus. Both can be activated by running Virtualbox and enabling the external USB HD there. However, when thus enabled, Nautilus still doesn’t access the external USB or any network shares.
-
Dolphin has no such issues when running in Gnome. When I actually log in to a KDE4 session, the Gnome panel appears at the top of the screen on the KDE desktop.
Where do I go now?
gminnerup wrote:
> 1. no SUSE slab menu and no Nautilus. Both can be activated by running
> Virtualbox and enabling the external USB HD there. However, when thus
> enabled, Nautilus still doesn’t access the external USB or any network
> shares.
Already tried to create another user to see if both problems persist? :-?
> 2. Dolphin has no such issues when running in Gnome. When I actually
> log in to a KDE4 session, the Gnome panel appears at the top of the
> screen on the KDE desktop.
In the past, running gnome apps (nautilus) inside a kde session was a bit,
let’s say, problematic. Not sure how the integration between them is now.
Remember that there are start up scripts and applications configured to run
on session start, so maybe they are both (kde ones and gnome ones) running
when you log in.
“killall -9 gnome-panel” should remove the panel when in kde4 session. Then,
try saving your kde session, re-login and see if gnome-panel is not showing
anymore…
Greetings,
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Camaleón
OK, “killall” got rid of the Gnome panel in KDE. I wasn’t running Gnome applications in KDE, I was running Dolphin in Gnome.
Haven’t tried the new user yet, but will…
The new Gnome user will have to wait as I’ve fallen in love with KDE4 after upgrading to 4.2 
I’ve always preferred Gnome over KDE 3.5, and KDE4 in OS 11.0 just annoyed me but this looks promising… Didn’t take long to make it look more Gnome-like and familiar, in any case I’m a sucker for eye-candy and I can have enough here without Compiz.
We’ll see if it lasts. Will try the new user approach next time I run a Gnome session, which might be in a few months or later tonight
Many thanks for your help in the meantime, hope I can return the favour some time.
gminnerup wrote:
> The new Gnome user will have to wait as I’ve fallen in love with KDE4
> after upgrading to 4.2 I’ve always preferred Gnome over KDE 3.5, and
> KDE4 in OS 11.0 just annoyed me but this looks promising… Didn’t take
> long to make it look more Gnome-like and familiar, in any case I’m a
> sucker for eye-candy and I can have enough here without Compiz.
> We’ll see if it lasts. Will try the new user approach next time I run a
> Gnome session, which might be in a few months or later tonight
> Many thanks for your help in the meantime, hope I can return the favour
> some time.
You’re wellcome… and enjoy with your new desktop!
Greetings,
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Camaleón