john wrote: > 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> >> > >
How about .xinitrc? And this sounds a bit extreme, but on the presumption that this is the only user being affected, have you thought about tarballing his directory, deleting, and adding him again? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
