Did you change dclarke's UID between (2) and (3) by any chance? Anyway, it looks like you've got stale gconf and/or ORBit files in /var/tmp. Best thing to do is:
1) make sure you kill all gconfd-2 processes 2) log in as root on the console and rm -rf /var/tmp/*-dclarke Yes, this is broken and it was discussed on desktop-discuss in this thread: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-August/001656.html Laca On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 21:13 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I am trying to get a handle on my issues here. Truely I feel that GNOME > may be at fault. > > Repeatedly I have done the following : > > (1) from the dtlogin screen ( or gdm or whatever the new snazzy thing is ) > I login to the console as root > > (2) userdel -r dclarke > > (3) useradd -c "Dennis Clarke" -d /export/home/dclarke -e "" -f 0 -g csw \ > -m -s /sbin/sh -u 12345 dclarke > > (4) passwd dclarke > > (5) logout from the root console session > > (6) login via the new snazzy gdm/dtgreet thing as this new user dclarke > > (7) when presented with a desktop option I select GNOME 2.14 > > (8) watch as various bad things happen in front of me .. slowly > > The process takes a long long time. I watch as the screen goes black > and eventually, after five minutes or so I get an error dialog box, one > after another. > > These I click on and dispose of as I try to get to a desktop of some sort. > > After a long time I eventually get to a desktop of sorts. I have what > looks to be nautilus ( or some file system navigation tool ) and I try > to get to /usr/openwin/bin and double click on the xterm binary. This > allows me to get sdtimage running to take a snapshot thus : > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/GNOME/gnome-2.14-snv_46.png > > Another variation on this theme is that there is a step (0) above. I have > at times performs a reboot as step 0. > > This is with snv_46 on Sparc. Is anyone else getting stuff like this? > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
