x-nautalis won't start

[mbrad]

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I just turned on my pc and I got the following error:

Error: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
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My computer is crazy slow now, nothing appears on the desktop, menus still work, can't see my open programs at the bottom of the screen.

I did a yum update, but nothing has changed.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brad

[wzb]

is metacity running?

[mbrad]

Thanks for the reply,

I'm fairly new to Linux. Not sure what that is, or how to check.

Brad

[wzb]

[in your terminal] simple method of checking is
pidof metacity

if that returns a number its running.

[mbrad]

Here is what I got

[root@bradserver ~]# pidof metacity
3228 1946
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@bradserver ~]#

Brad

[mbrad]

I figured I wasn't supposed to have metacity, so I did

yum remove metacity.

Now my PC won't start.

I'm in the midst of trying the recovery CD, but I can't

yum install metacity. That command is not found in bash???

Any ideas?

Brad