John Seago wrote:

Yes it is Red hat 7.1 (Seawolf), I would be grateful for any suggestions you may have. John Seago

John, I've posted this to the alug list as well, I hope you don't mind as I'm sure others may get caught by this...

anyway.. I had this problem a few weeks ago, and it racked my brains for hours.. under one user, all the gnome apps worked, under a different user the gnome apps all crashed out..

The reason was that the applications were trying to retrieve their locale info, which is set by gdm at login. All new users have no locale set, and the gnome apps don't like this one bit.

The solution is simple. goto a freshly booted RH7.x box, and select the "english/british" locale from the language menu, then login, all apps should now work flawlessly, well as flawlessly as can be expected ;)

I'm not sure who's mistake this is, Redhat/Gnome/User....but I suppose that is what happens when you try to cram locale's into a gui ;)...

anyway, I hope this cures all your problems, let me know how you get on... Regards Sz

On Thursday 28 June 2001 8:31 am, you wrote:

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just a quickie.. Is this redhat 7.0/7.1? if so I might know what is happening...

John Seago wrote:

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Having now got over the initial euphoria of actually having a working (?), (see later), set of "Linux", Chris, my daughters fiancee, and I have now come up against several problems, In my case numbers of applications just don't work,and trying them delivers a bug report window>