<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM, WAM III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lws@hiwaay.net">lws@hiwaay.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
.... This is submitted as a follow-on to another thread I started from<br>
home w/ approximately the above subject line. I am logged in (&<br>
list-subbed) from work to hopefully expedite. I tried the procedure as<br>
recommended on the other thread (boot in runlevel 3, blow away<br>
all .gnome* diles/directories, then startx & let gnome initialize<br>
itself). that failed, but w/ (hopefully) some clues. I attach the last<br>
few lines from my syslog file which reference gconfd & 1 gnome error.<br>
When the gnome startup failed, it put up a dialog saying it failed to<br>
connect to socket /tmp/dbus-wX8NISVDe7 w/ a 'connection refused'. It<br>
also had dialogs saying that Nautilus had an unexpected error from<br>
Bonobo when trying to register the file manager view server. Everything<br>
else looks OK (permissions, SELinux contexts, etc.). The account is just<br>
the stub created by the 'users & grioups' manager, w/ the old directory<br>
renamed to a non-conflicting name in /home. Please advise & thanks in<br>
advance for your time & any clues :-) ....<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>The previous thread mentioned moving the .gnome directories, but I don't see it suggesting to move the .gconf directories either. .gconf contains stuff that to me reminds me of user registries in that other OS, particularly how parts of GNOME apps interact with others. I would suggest making that move and trying again. I know this was necessary when I was playing with some changes in my Ubuntu installation that messed with quite a few things.<br>
<br><br>Brian <br></div></div>