[ale] ongoing problems w/ users on CentOS 5.3 ....

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 13:51:18 EDT 2009


I left of the .gconf in error. Yes! toss the old .gconf into the same
process as the old .gnome dirs.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Brian MacLeod<nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM, WAM III <lws at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>
>> .... This is submitted as a follow-on to another thread I started from
>> home w/ approximately the above subject line. I am logged in (&
>> list-subbed) from work to hopefully expedite. I tried the procedure as
>> recommended on the other thread (boot in runlevel 3, blow away
>> all .gnome* diles/directories, then startx & let gnome initialize
>> itself). that failed, but w/ (hopefully) some clues. I attach the last
>> few lines from my syslog file which reference gconfd & 1 gnome error.
>> When the gnome startup failed, it put up a dialog saying it failed to
>> connect to socket /tmp/dbus-wX8NISVDe7 w/ a 'connection refused'. It
>> also had dialogs saying that Nautilus had an unexpected error from
>> Bonobo when trying to register the file manager view server. Everything
>> else looks OK (permissions, SELinux contexts, etc.). The account is just
>> the stub created by the 'users & grioups' manager, w/ the old directory
>> renamed to a non-conflicting name in /home. Please advise & thanks in
>> advance for your time & any clues :-) ....
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>
> 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.
>
>
> Brian
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