On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:39 +0100, Jochen Bartl wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 18.01.2006, 18:37 -0800 schrieb Elaine Tsiang YueLien: > > It may be related to a previous post about gconf not working. > > > > I answered yes to migration during upgrade. All seemed to work fine. > > Except windows would hang at various random points, sometimes crashing > > the system to the point of not being able to switch to a tty. > > [snipped] > > > > The migration question did say that "certain scripts may break" when all > > gconf data are combined into %gconf-tree.xml. > > > > Even though not migrating seems to solve the hang problem for now, it is > > still disturbing that I was not able to start afresh by removing .gconf* > > and .gnome*. > > > > I would be happy to do some more experiments if it would help find the > > problem. > > > > E > > -- > > > > > > Hi. > > I'm sure this problem is simlar to mine > http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2006/01/msg00035.html > > To solve this problem, I purged all my gnome packages and created a new > user. After reconfiguring gnome and its programs, I did a reboot. All of > the configuration was lost again. Firstly I thougt $HOME/.gconf/% > gconf-tree.xml was readonly, but it wasn't. Very drastic medicine, which I had to take one time before. But maybe I would need to take it again sometime soon. My gnome/gconf data have come through several incarnations of X/gnome/gconf. The single-file conversion may not take care of some really old settings. > > The errors didn't show up since yesterday, so I think my problem is > fixed. But in your case, killall -USR1 gconfd-2 could be useful. Now, > gconfd will log more verbose to /var/log/user.log and you hopefully can > solve your problem. Yes, I did not think about how the daemon could preserve settings even through rebooting. It needs to be killed before removing the gconf data.
I logged out - which killed the gconfd. To be sure, I killed gdm. Then I removed DON'T-MIGRATE and rebooted. I answered yes to migration. The gnome-volume-control is still there. No funny .xsession-errors, and no hangs so far. This still begs the question of why it did not work after the upgrade - maybe the upgrade needs to be done without gnome, in tty mode. Thanks, I'll take the bitter medicine later when I have to. E. > > best regards, > > jochen -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
