Programs fail with complaint about per-user Gnome directory

[Edward Betts <edward hairnet demon co uk>]

When I run gulp I get:

$ gulp

** ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome directory </home/edward/.gnome>
- aborting

IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)

$

Here is the stack

#0  0x4035c159 in __kill ()
#1  0x4032b41d in gsignal ()
#2  0x400a0c53 in gnomelib_register_arguments () at gnomelib-init.c:58
#3  0x40065803 in gnome_init () at gnome-init.c:137
#4  0x40040b5a in _GLOBAL_.I.obgnomeApp.m () at obgnomeApp.m:12
#5  0x804b9ab in -[GULPApp initGULP:::] (self=0x8087650, _cmd=0x8071724,
    app_id=0x806cf24 "gulp", argc=1, argv=0xbffff9f0) at gulp.m:405
#6  0x80625dd in __objc_init_install_dtable ()
#7  0x804c50a in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff9f0) at gulp.m:545
#8  0x804a6ce in ___crt_dummy__ ()

When I run gpostit I get: 

$ gpostit

** ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome directory </home/edward/.gnome>
- aborting

IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)

$

Here is the stack:

#0  0x4035c159 in __kill ()
#1  0x4032b41d in gsignal ()
#2  0x400b4c53 in gnomelib_register_arguments () at gnomelib-init.c:58
#3  0x40079803 in gnome_init () at gnome-init.c:137
#4  0x40010b5a in _GLOBAL_.I.obgnomeApp.m () at obgnomeApp.m:12
#5  0x804a0e0 in -[PostitApp initPostitApp::] (self=0x80810c0,
_cmd=0x806bdfc,
    argc=1, argv=0xbffff9e0) at gpostit.m:49
#6  0x805fe7d in __objc_init_install_dtable ()
#7  0x804a02b in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff9e0) at gpostit.m:35
#8  0x8049f8e in ___crt_dummy__ ()

When I run girc I get:

$ girc

** ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome directory </home/edward/.gnome>
- aborting

IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)

$

Stack:

#0  0x4035c159 in __kill ()
#1  0x4032b41d in gsignal ()
#2  0x400b4c53 in gnomelib_register_arguments () at gnomelib-init.c:58
#3  0x40079803 in gnome_init () at gnome-init.c:137
#4  0x40024b5a in _GLOBAL_.I.obgnomeApp.m () at obgnomeApp.m:12
#5  0x804b555 in -[IRCApp initApp:::] (self=0x808a3b0, _cmd=0x8072d18,
    app_id=0x806cf6c "girc", argcp=0xbffff9d8, argvp=0xbffff9dc) at
girc.m:16
#6  0x806419d in __objc_init_install_dtable ()
#7  0x804d16d in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff9f0) at girc.m:608
#8  0x804a5de in ___crt_dummy__ ()

When I run gmailman I get:

$ gmailman

When I run gmailman I get:

$ gmailman

** ERROR **: Could not create per-user Gnome directory </home/edward/.gnome>
- aborting

IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)

$

Stack:

#0  0x4035c159 in __kill ()
#1  0x4032b41d in gsignal ()
#2  0x400b4c53 in gnomelib_register_arguments () at gnomelib-init.c:58
#3  0x40079803 in gnome_init () at gnome-init.c:137
#4  0x40010b5a in _GLOBAL_.I.obgnomeApp.m () at obgnomeApp.m:12
#5  0x804cccf in -[Mailman initMailman:::] (self=0x8087488, _cmd=0x807113c,
    app_id=0x806bcb3 "gmailman", argc=1, argv=0xbffff9e0) at gmailman.m:540
#6  0x80636dd in __objc_init_install_dtable ()
#7  0x804cdff in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff9e0) at gmailman.m:561
#8  0x804a90e in _start ()

Look familier doesn't it? For your information I have a /home/edward/.gnome 

$ ls .gnome -dl
   1 drwx------   3 edward   edward       1024 May 25 17:05 .gnome/
$

It contains a number of files since, every one likes long bug reports you can
have a listing

total 20
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        172 May 25 19:45 CORBA-servers
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 25 17:08 Comlink
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        528 May 25 20:03 Desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward          0 May 25 20:03 Gnome
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        519 May 25 20:00 GnomeHelp
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 25 19:58 Logview
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        238 May 25 17:05 Terminal
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         34 May 25 20:00 calendar
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 25 19:45 ee
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 25 19:59 gEdit
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 25 19:58 gcalc
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        213 May 25 16:57 gmc
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 25 17:06 gnome-ghostview
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        171 May 25 16:32 gtop
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 24 13:47 gw
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 24 01:23 hello
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward         22 May 25 11:38 mc
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward          0 May 25 14:30 name
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        786 May 25 19:45 panel
drwxr-xr-x   2 edward   edward       1024 May 25 14:49 panel-Session-11c0a80004000089610412700000106260004
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        397 May 25 14:49 session
-rw-r--r--   1 edward   edward        100 May 24 11:47 user-cal.vcf

-- 
Edward Betts  http://www.hairnet.demon.co.uk/