Can't seem to open certain things. For example Synaptic Package manger. It just shows "starting" etc and then nothing. Same thing with partition editor and root terminal. Terminal runs fine (and i can su root from there) as do other things such as firefox, system monitor,update manager add/remove applications. apt-get still works fine. Just want to mention i have 500 megs of ram.
Any ideas? Are there logs dumped somewhere for this kind of thing? Synaptic package manager still runs using dpkg from the terminal.
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Some programs not opening. Just "starting" and then disapear
Re: Some programs not opening. Just "starting" and then disapear
If you use a terminal emulator (xterm, aterm, etc) to call a program, it will give you the error messages.
Synaptic requires root privileges. In my Openbox menu, I have. The gksu -g brings up a box for you to enter your root password.
Synaptic requires root privileges. In my Openbox menu, I have
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gksu -g /usr/sbin/synaptic
Re: Some programs not opening. Just "starting" and then disapear
Also, almost every application save logs in files under some special directories. One is, for example, /var/log.
For example, if you,
then you can see the latest events that happened in kernel.
But the first step of troubleshooting is running the program in the Terminal, like Bulkley said.
For example, if you,
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cat /var/log/messages
But the first step of troubleshooting is running the program in the Terminal, like Bulkley said.
Re: Some programs not opening. Just "starting" and then disapear
Same problem since I installed testing. Trouble is for me it's intermittent and Synaptic is the only program affected so far. I tried running it a few times from the terminal last night but it was behaving normally. I will try again later today. I forgot to check the logs as well!
Re: Some programs not opening. Just "starting" and then disapear
You're not really running a web browser as root are you? If so, I'd suggest not as that's a great way for some exploit to root your box.wolfric wrote: Terminal runs fine (and i can su root from there) as do other things such as firefox,.
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Re: Some programs not opening. Just "starting" and then disapear
no i'm not running a browser in root. It seems to be working now for some reason.