RE: gconftool-2 question



On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 09:49 -0600, Lijowski, Michal wrote:
> I was clean install. The symptons are missing Application and Place
> submenus,
> System submenu limited to Lock Screen, Lock Out, Shutdown, missing
> icon. The icons
> for Firefox, Evolution, OpenOffice are replaced by icons with red
> diagonal crosses.
> I can't open pdf file with evince even in gnome terminal because
> appropiate mime
> is missing. Root account and if I create a new user account are OK.
> 
> Michal

try the below from a virtual console ( Ctrl+alt+F1) for the affected
user

cd ~
mkdir old_config
mv .gtk*  .local .config .nautilus .gnome* .gconf* .icons .themes
old_config

check if this helps.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ritesh Khadgaray [mailto:khadgaray gmail com]
> Sent: Mon 12/11/2006 3:39 AM
> To: Lijowski, Michal
> Cc: gconf-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: gconftool-2 question
> 
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 17:26 -0600, Lijowski, Michal wrote:
> > I have a problem with a gnome panel crashing, because of unknown
> > reasons. The platform is FC 6 with most recent updates.
> > Usually I do updates from my default user account using pup or yumex
> > after entering root password. I don't see any error messages
> > in /var/log/messages indicating a problem.
> 
> Was this an upgrade, or a clean install ?
> >
> > A message indicating problem appears in xses-errors file
> > (gnome-panel:11574): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon
> > 'start-here'. The '
> > hicolor' theme
> > was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
> > You can get a copy from:
> >         http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases
> >
> > Deleting .gnome*, .gconf* and bunch of other files after shutting
> down
> > X server does not solve the problem.
> >
> > At the address
> > http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/gconf-28.html there is
> > command which
> > suppose to restore default preference values. I am not sure whether
> > this applies to my case.
> > I am not sure with what I have to replace user-configuration-source.
> >
> > gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> > xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --recursive-unset
> > Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a
> > read-only configuration source at position 0
> > None of the resolved addresses are writable; saving configuration
> > settings will not be possible
> > Must specify one or more keys to recursively unset.
> >
> >  I appreciate any tips.
> >
> >  Michal
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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