On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:39 -0400, James Knott wrote: > John O'Gorman wrote: > > One user has a corrupted GNOME desktop. > > When he logs in, about 3 icons show, no task bar, no menus. > > Lots of error dialogue boxes pop up. > > > > Dozens of error messages: > > GConf Error: Adding client to server's l;ist failed, CORBA error: > > IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 > > > > The book suggested renaning .gconf and .gnome2 (actually misprinted > > as ./gconf and ./gnome2). I did this. When the user logged in again, no > > change. > > > > All other users are OK. > > I added another user - OK also. > > > > This is not a show-stopper as he can use KDE instead and that still > > works. > > > > OS is SuSE 10.0. All the users are logging in on thin clients (LTSP > > Linux Terminal Server Project) which have worked fine for 5 years. > > > > > > If he deletes the directories containing the gnome stuff and logs in > with gnome, he should be OK, though he'll have lost all his settings.
That's what I thought we had done by mv'ing .gconf and .gnome2 I also mv'ed .gnome The dirs all got rebuilt but the bug remained. There must be some other dirs as well. Does anyone know what they are? John O'Gorman > > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
