[indiana-discuss] IPS GUI fails to start

[Calum Benson]

On 4 Jun 2008, at 21:19, Nick wrote:

> About 3/4 times i try to start the IPS GUI it fails to start and my  
> keyboard functionality goes away. I see a small tab come up in my  
> GNome panel saying "Starting Package Manager..." it promptly goes  
> away and the package manager never starts. The most annoying point  
> is that when this happens i lose all keyboard functionality, luckily  
> i can still use my mouse so i logout and log back in and my keyboard  
> functionality is returned.
>
> If can shed some light on these issues i would greatly appreciate it.

Try running 'pfexec packagemanager' in a terminal and see if you get  
any error messages.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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