Hi - I seem to be having some errors when I log out of the gui into runlevel 3. I am running RH9 with all of the latest updates. I get errors from both KDE and GNOME.. the following is all of the errors I get when I logout from KDE and Gnome with my dmesg.... (warning: quite lengthy)

First My video card driver info...

PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 AGP - 128 mb
Driver: default VESA driver (generic)
Monitor - Samsung SyncMaster 955DF
Driver: unprobed (I set the refresh rates according to manufacturer)


Here are messages that I got when logging out of KDE into run level 3...
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:13
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:15
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:16
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:21
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:24
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:26
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:27
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:28
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:29
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:30
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:31
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:33
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:34
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:35
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:38
Invalid entry (missing '=') at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:41

Qfont::setPixelSize = 0 (-1)
startkde:shutting down...
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit (), pid= 4032, errno=29
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit (), pid= 4046, errno=0
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit (), pid= 4034, errno=0

startkde:Running shutdown scripts
startkde:done



OK - now here are my gnome errors after switching back from KDE...
IceTransmkdir:Owner of /tmp/.ICE - unix should be set to root
SESSION_MANAGER=local/x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-oc-b9:/temp/.ICE-unix/3860
GetModeLine-scrn:0 clock: 0
GetModeLine - hdsp:1280 hbeg:0hend:0 httl:0
vdsp: 1024 vbeg:0 vend:0 vttl: 0 flags:0

Key/apps/panel/profiles/default/objects/0t1066194600ut420231u500p4046r1241171661k3221218268/launcher_location is not set, can't load launcher.

Waiting for X Server to shutdown
The application 'gnome-panel' lost it's connection to display:0.0; most likely the X Server was shutdown or you killed/destroyed the application.


Here is my dmesg from a console...

[eric@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 eric]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.4.20-20.9 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Mon Aug 18 11:45:58 EDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126960 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2402.996 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4797.23 BogoMIPS
Memory: 511332k/524224k available (1358k kernel code, 10328k reserved, 1004k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 07
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb240, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.1
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.1
ICH4: chipset revision 2
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
HPT372: IDE controller at PCI slot 02:06.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:06.0
HPT372: chipset revision 5
HPT372: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa408-0xa40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cdfe0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: TDK DVDRW420N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: irq 9, pci mem e0849000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW.
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size corrected to 128.
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jan-22
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 11:55:13 Aug 18 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,8), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1044184k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,9), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TDK Model: DVDRW420N Rev: 1.36
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-6000
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ip_tables: © 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:00.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe0947000, 00:50:8d:4a:0c:b9, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-6000
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 11:55:17 Aug 18 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 4 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0xc400 and 0xc000, MEM 0xe5001000 and 0xe5002000, IRQ 4
i810: Intel ICH4 mmio at 0xe0981000 and 0xe0983000
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG32 (ALC650)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID value = 0x05c7
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map configured, total channels = 6
i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
[eric@x1-6-00-50-8d-4a-0c-b9 eric]$



wwwwhhhheeeewwwww...ok - that's it. Can anyone offer a clue as to what these errors are and how to fix them? /var/log/messages didn't seem to offer anything outside of my computer running fine. Other than these errors listed above, my PC seems to run nicely, with the occational hang but it usually fixes itself in a few min. Thanks!

Eric

why not Driver "nvidia"? I'm sure that vesa driver has much lower limitations than the nvidia driver.

Have you looked at usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui:line? What is it asking for? Do you even want to use the serveice? If not, turn it off.

You were logged in as root, then tried to login as a user?...or the socket for root refused to die. The /tmp/.ICE - unix/ 3860 is a socket that got left behind, which is typical for kde/ice. As root, do;
rm -f /tmp/.ICE-unix/3860


D/K about the laucher...what launchers do you have?

gnome-panel losing connection with display is a normal gnome-panel messege. The panel is actually devel'd on its own/apart from gnome.

These are no biggy really. In other words.......welcome to linux. You'll find all kinds of stuff printed out. At any given time, do Ctrl>Alt>F1 to see them, then Ctrl>Alt>F7 to go back to X. Kinda like starting an app from a terminal and seeing its output in the terminal.

Thanks alot for your reply!

Should I use the Nvidia driver? I do not plan on using any 3d. That's why I haven't installed it. But, surely if it will help my system out - I will definitly install it.

I ended up re-installing rh9 - the largest reason being that originally I did a "full install". The reason I did this is because the very first time I installed it (BTW - I am a N00bie with Linux) I was running into problems with dependencies - especially with Gaim and K3B. There was a time that I spent 5 hours seeking dependencies for K3B - I became rather frustrated and thought doing a full install would throw most of those dependencies on my box by default. So, I thought that's where most of my problems were coming from since I had installed EVERYTHING (http server ftp server - all of it - even though I wasn't using any of it.) As of the last few days, I have been using Apt-Get but again this is all too new to me, I d/l K3B - installed it and used Apt-Get to find dependencies. I'm sure there is still an easier way to do it - but I only have one depositorie listed (freshrpms) and they didn't have K3B so I d/l it manually and installed it using rpm -ivh.

Anyway, I still get some of these same errors along with slightly stranger ones.... for example...

Window manager warning: Window 0x1e000b3 (K3b - The ) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on
itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.
Window manager warning: Window 0x1e0042f (Tip of the) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on
itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.
Window manager warning: Window 0x1e00578 (About K3b) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on
itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.
Window manager warning: Window 0x1e00732 (Options - ) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on
itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world
strange things are going on in the world

waiting for X server to shut down The application 'nautilus' lost its
connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.


Stange things are going on in the world? OK - (i guess).

Here is another instance...
f, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.
Window manager warning: Window 0x1e00541 (Options - ) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on
itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.
Window manager warning: Window 0x1e0082a (Options - ) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on
itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.

--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> file:///mnt/win_f/Linux%20Files

(nautilus:3599): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-metafile.c: metafiles" hash table
still has 1 element at quit time (keys above)

--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> file:///mnt/win_f/Linux%20Files

(nautilus:3599): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash
table
still has 1 element at quit time (keys above)

(nautilus:3599): Bonobo-WARNING **: Leaked a total of 2 refs to 2 bonobo
object(s)

waiting for X server to shut down



And yet another...

ASSERT: "id < (int)d->m_list.count()" in kaction.cpp (1539)
Window manager warning: Window 0x18007a7 (Player 2 i) sets SM_CLIENT_ID on
itself, instead of on the WM_CLIENT_LEADER window as specified in the ICCCM.
ASSERT: "id < (int)d->m_list.count()" in kaction.cpp (1539)
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding

--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> file:///home/eric

(nautilus:3599): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-metafile.c: metafiles" hash table
still has 1 element at quit time (keys above)

--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> file:///home/eric

(nautilus:3599): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash
table
still has 1 element at quit time (keys above)

(nautilus:3599): Bonobo-WARNING **: Leaked a total of 2 refs to 2 bonobo
object(s)

waiting for X server to shut down



PS - /mnt/win_f is a fat32 partition I mounted - My RH9 is setup in a triple boot with 2 different instances of Windows XP - and in addition, I have 2 extra partitions for files - this mounted partition is "F:/" in XP - thus "win_f". I mounted it and made it read/writeable according to instructions from RH - it works fine other than an occational copy error.

If these are no biggie - cool, I'll leave it.

Thanks again.
Eric