On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:52 -0600, Pueblo Native wrote: > 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? Gulp yes!
He has a vast amount of stuff (already safely squirreled away in another directory. I have shrunk from recreating him as a new user as I would then be left with the task of deciding how to selectively restore his old files. If you people cannot come up with a better notion, that is probably my next step. John O'Gorman > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
