Re: Revive corrupt user

2008-09-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 15:18 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Alex Makhlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am an IT professional but quite new to Linux. I am using Fedora 9 and a few times now, most of which have been my fault, I will experiment and/or make some

Revive corrupt user

2008-09-19 Thread Alex Makhlin
Hi, I am an IT professional but quite new to Linux. I am using Fedora 9 and a few times now, most of which have been my fault, I will experiment and/or make some changes that would then give me errors while logged in as my personal user or at times I cannot even get to the desktop. The only

Re: Revive corrupt user

2008-09-19 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Alex Makhlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am an IT professional but quite new to Linux. I am using Fedora 9 and a few times now, most of which have been my fault, I will experiment and/or make some changes that would then give me errors while logged in as my

Re: Revive corrupt user

2008-09-19 Thread Alan Cox
latest Fedora updates, I could no longer get to the desktop of my personal user so in the end I had to go through the same process of creating a new user before I could login. But I again had to go through the tedious task of copying my personal files and personalising the settings of the

Re: Revive corrupt user

2008-09-19 Thread Frode Petersen
Alan Cox: Generally for GNOME doing an rm -rf .gconf is a reset of the desktop state and should get you back to sanity. Ditto with .mozilla for firefox. Alan Just remember to backup the bookmarks file for firefox before doing that... It's at

Re: Revive corrupt user

2008-09-19 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: latest Fedora updates, I could no longer get to the desktop of my personal user so in the end I had to go through the same process of creating a new user before I could login. But I again had to go through the tedious task of