texasaggie

I have this same problem on a machine I keep at work that I update frequently from cooker. When I first noticed the failure, I tried to login to gnome directly and could not. A few days later when I looked again (and had updated some RPMs), GNOME was working. I had been using Evolution 1.2 and had a large calendar. I never got 1.3 RPMs to run. I got 1.4 to start by deleting my evolution directory (after backing it up) and then imported in my old 1.2 calendar entries. 1.4 on the whole is very unstable for me - the UI locks up a lot and I've noticed that if I kill the calendar alarm process, things start right up. Good luck.

I have an odd font problem that I think is timing-related but I can't pin it down. When my Mandrake 9.0 machine starts up and I get to the kdm login screen, I usually end up with tiny, uncomprehensible fonts (I am presuming the nil font from browsing through all the fonts). If I keep restart the X server, it will eventually come back and my nice, clean anti-aliased fonts will show up. I initially presumed that this was a timing issue with kdm perhaps starting before xfs, but I can leave it on the login screen for 15 minutes and then try and it still may not work. Sometimes I restart the X server once and it works, sometimes 15 times. Has anyone ever seen the same behavior? I have 2 other Mandrake 9.0 machines that I keep up to date and neither one of them has this issue. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the accelerated video driver for my card (Matrox G-400 Max) is somehow interfering?!?!