Log out, go to a virtual console, and run: killall gconfd-2 bonobo-slay Then log back in. That fixes most upgrade-related problems with gnome.
-Rob On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 18:50 +0100, John Leach wrote: > Hi, > > I've dist-upgraded from the i386 unstable and experimental repositories > to get gnome 2.6 and run into a strange problem. When logging in, the > gtk theme flicks back and forth in quick succession between the default > and my actual settings a few times, then I get a message about gconfd > not starting correctly (not able to spawn a child process). The Gtk > theme then doesn't work and the all the nautilus icons are just the > default white flip-page icon. But my background image works fine, > along with my metacity theme and even gconf-editor seems to function > fine. > > It's crazy because if run gnome-session to a remote display (via a new > ssh login of the same account) it all works perfectly. No gconf > complaints and no gtk theme problems. > > I'm having trouble pinpointing the problem using strace, but it does > show that gconf is failing to find a particular linc-????-?-* file in > /tmp/orbit-john whilst the flicking is occurring. > > I've put off reporting this since Friday just in case it was being > caused by some out of sync packages or something. I'm still not > convinced it isn't though. > > Any ideas? > > John. > -- > GPG: B89C D450 5B2C 74D8 58FB A360 9B06 B5C2 26F0 3047 > WEB: http://www.johnleach.co.uk
