On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:09:33PM -0800, Michael O'Keefe wrote:
> >>>>>>I've never had this happen before. For some reason on my laptop, the
> >>>>>>gnome-terminal program has decided not to work. It loads the frame,
> >>>>>>tries for a while, and then stops responding. xterm works just fine.
> >>
> >>If it's just gnome programs, then I find it's often the communication 
> >>system for Gnome has gone ka-ka
> >>
> >>I think they talk over a socket in /tmp somewhere.... ???
> >
> >And I should look for this and delete it?
> 
> If it is this, then it's prolly been deleted, that would be what's 
> stopping the Gnome components from communicating
> 
> I think it's called Orbit ?
> /tmp/orbit-<username>/...
> 

I finally 

1. deleted myself as a user

2. deleted everything I owned in /tmp

3. added me back

4. started X anew.

Now I'm going to recover my useful files.

Sometimes this stuff gags me 8-P

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