Re: Programs fail with complaint about per-user Gnome directory

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

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

Currently the code in gnomelib_init() tries to avoid aborting if the
directory already exists (specifically, if mkdir fails with errno ==
EEXIST).

Can you find out why this code doesn't work for you?  One way to do it
would be to run a Gnome application under "strace" and see what error
is returned by mkdir.

Tom