GNOME crashes odly

Recently, I had problems with GNOME.
The loading hanged up before finishing and I couldn't do anything and restarting gave the same effect.
I finally managed to make it work (I don't know how) after a long discussion on IRC.
But this time, a friend of mine has the same problem and I'm unable to make it work. Removing configuration files solves the problem for a couple of times and it freeze again.
It doesn't freeze at startup, but whenever an application is launched.
I managed to log a session here : http://pastebin.archlinux.org/2341
I've highlighted some lines :
244) The end of the GNOME startup. All seems functionnal
246) The session is launched from console in an empty X session, so this is normal.
247) We call the gconf-editor from the gnome-panel. All control is lost. Nothing is responding in the X session
278) The log hangs here a very long time
279) There is a TIMEOUT and all controls are given back. The gconf-editor is still an empty window but is killable.
296) We start another application (gnome-system-log) and again we loose control.
328) Control is given back but the gonme-system-log window is still empty and nothing can be done inside.
I have only enable GSM_VERBOSE_DEBUG.
Any help would be really appreciated.
thanks,
Cilyan

my problm was similar..but its related to enable the gnome audio sounds...it ocures exactly like you discrive

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at http://wiki.x.org
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Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "TwinView" "True"
#Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
I commented out below to get it in again, but it still feels shaky and unstable to log in now. Sometimes I will get the error and after a log out and login, it'll work.
#Option "TwinView" "True"
#Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
Extra Notes: I have another desktop session with awesome installed(uninstalled now) and could log into that no problem. Awesome was giving me troubles so I uninstalled it. I have 2 gnome desktop sessions, my regular gnome session(the one that crashes), and the other with no window manager(never crashed on startup).
I installed awesome around the same time as configuring the dual monitor setup.
Thanks.

Update.
The crashes are to be expected now. I'm circumventing the whole thing by logging into my other Gnome session without a window manager, logging out and then logging back into my regular Gnome with Metacity.
I've noticed the tty1 sessions(not sure what's it's called) is strange. Apparently my session runs on tty8 but when I try logging in, it'll crash me and tty7 gives me a blank screen with a blinking underscore. The other tty1s work regularly. Not sure if this has anything to do with it.
Is there a way to just reset the Gnome settings?

[Solved] Gnome crashes/restarts

Hi,
I had these weird crashes with kdm and found a temporary solution which was switching off Direct Rendering. It stopped the crashes by a huge amount but they still kept happening randomly.
What happened would be
Blank screen > Nvidia Screen> Kde login
So annoyed with it I decided to get gnome and delete kdm. The problem with gnome right now is the same thing which happened with kde except only on battery mode. It hasnt happened so far in 12+ hours when its connected to AC power.
I'm beginning to think its a nvidia issue rather than a issue with BOTH the environments. Any fix to this?
Last edited by death__machine (2011-07-09 23:17:59)

I got nouveau, followed the arch-wiki about it. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau
It asked me to blacklist the nvidia driver incase I had it installed, which I did but it didnt work, so I uninstalled the nvidia driver. Then I rebooted and gnome started on fallback mode, googled it and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=926307 this thread showed up where someone said to install nouveau-dri. Did that and seems to be working . I really hope this doesnt crash on me and I have a feeling it wont .

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