esd woes (was: Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root)

2007-08-17 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Markus Schönhaber wrote: In the meantime I've noticed one thing: under the first user account I created on the machine, there are no problems at all. With other accounts, I experience random lockups (main menu doesn't respond anymore, desktop icons disappear, nautilus hangs etc.). The

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:00:17 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder.

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:08 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try moving ~/.gconfd out of the way. It helped in my case. Thanks. I tried it, but alas no effect. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:08 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try moving ~/.gconfd out of the way. It helped in my case. Thanks. I tried it, but

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/14/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder. After that, I made the user again and tried logging in. I got a whole

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-15 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try moving ~/.gconfd out of the way. It helped in my case. Thanks. I tried it, but alas no effect. Same status (.gconfd had only the saved-state file). Yep, same for me. The

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/13/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated to the new gnome. After battling the expat problem, I was able to get a clean emerge and an empty revdep-rebuild (with Bo's help). But gnome is broken on this system (others have reported similar problems). In my case basically

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/14/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated to the new gnome. After battling the expat problem, I was able to get a clean emerge and an empty revdep-rebuild (with Bo's help). But gnome is broken on this system (others

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder. After that, I made the user again and tried logging in. I got a whole bunch of configuration errors... But I don't understand

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I created a new user testgot with the same uid as gottlieb and it works. There must be something in my config (and yours) that is bad for the old user. I can balance my checkbook with the new user so the panic is gone, but something needs to be fixed somewhere. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I created a new user testgot with the same uid as gottlieb and it works. There must be something in my config (and yours) that is bad for the old user. I can balance my checkbook with the

[gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I updated to the new gnome. After battling the expat problem, I was able to get a clean emerge and an empty revdep-rebuild (with Bo's help). But gnome is broken on this system (others have reported similar problems). In my case basically all gnome apps, e.g. panel, gnucash, evolution,