Re: gnome-terminal does not start

["jason cipriani" <jac4 mindless com>]

Well, this may or may not help you, but when I start having weird problems with gconf it's always been permissions problems for me. One time I messed with some of the .gconf folders and inadvertently changed the permissions on them, and so nothing was working. You could *try* this to make sure they are correct:

cd ~theuser
chown -R theuser:theuser .gconf .gconfd
chmod 700 -R .gconf .gconfd
find .gconf -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
find .gconfd -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;

Jason


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Reix" <tony reix bull net>
> To: gconf-list gnome org
> Subject: gnome-terminal does not start
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:15:07 +0100
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this mailing list is the one I must talk about my problem (since
> there is no gnome-terminal list and I'm not an expert of Gnome).
> If note=, just let me know and I'll post on the appropriate list.
> 
> 
> I have a problem with gnome-terminal:
> 
>   - when only 1 or 2 Profiles have been created for opening a new tab,
> 	gnome-terminal works perfectly well
> 
>   - when several (about 25 in my cases) profiles have been defined,
> 	opening a new gnome-terminal fails: the window appears and
> 	disappears after less than 1 second.
> 
> If I remove the directories global and profiles from:
> 		~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal
> and then restart gconfd (or close the session, don't remember exactly),
> then these directories are recreated (with only one Default profile) and
> I can again open a gnome-terminal.
> 
> The problem appeared when I rebooted the machine.
> Since the machine was up during more than one month and since I've
> updated many packages, I cannot say when the problem appeared.
> The last package I updated with yum was FireFox.
> 
> 
> (At the first time, the problem was worst: even with 1 (Default)
> profile, I was not able to open a gnome-terminal, for 2 users but not
> for root. A colleague changed some security configuration and then I was
> able to open a gnome-terminal with only 1 profile.)
> 
> 
> My environment is:
>   - user different than root
>   - FedoraCore4
>   - i386 (Pentium4 2.6 GHz)
>   - GConf2-2.10.0-4  (which seems to be last version available for FC2)
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
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