Re: gnome will not start after stupid mistake

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Steven Taetzsch wrote:

> I made the dumb mistake of changing my user ID while running gnome. I
> su'd and ran linuxconf to change my user ID to be the same as my unix
> account. When I exited out of gnome, it couldn't save whatever files it
> needed. Now, when I try to start the panel I get:
> 
> * ERROR **: file orbitgtk.c: line 194 (_gnorba_cookie_setup): assertion
> failed: (_gnorba_request_cookie._buffer &&
> *_gnorba_request_cookie._buffer)
> aborting...
> Aborted (core dumped)

Please try checking the ownerships/whatever on /tmp/orbit-[username] -
that's where the CORBA authentication cookie is stored, so it's very
likely that the problem lies there.

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