[indiana-discuss] IPS GUI fails to start

[Michal Pryc]

Calum Benson wrote:
> 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.

Nick,
Could you log a bug against this on defect.opensolaris.org, so we can 
track it.
Please also see what happens if you will start gui from the terminal, to 
do this open the terminal and type:

gksu /usr/bin/packagemanager

This should give a little more information on what is happening.

-- 
best
Michal Pryc