Re: gconf problems

[Michael Vanderford <michaelv cox-internet com>]

1. check hard drive space. Corruption could be a problem.
2. If you upgraded recently then you probably need to compile the rest
of the gnome core components...gail was the problem for me.

PS. Still haven't figured out the gconf schema's / themes problem.


Ximian 2 is almost done. It may pay off to wait and install it.

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 09:25, Rick Ziegler wrote:
> Hi all-
>     I have a RedHat 9 machine that is exhibiting very strange behavior.
> 
> 1)   in gconf-editor, no keys show up under 
> /schema/desktop/gnome/interface.  However, the file 
> /etc/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_interface.schema is present, and the 
> rpm to which it belongs verifies.  When a new user logs in, the keys 
> that are supposed to be found there are not created properly - they are 
> blank, and in gconf-editor you can even set the type of value for the 
> keys... 
> 
> 2)    Another consequence of this is when I choose "preferences->Themes" 
> from the gnome menu, I receive an error dialog: "The default theme 
> schemas could not be found on. This means that you probably don't have 
> metacity installed, or that your gconf is configured incorrectly."
> 
> 3)   I've been living with this for awhile, as there hadn't been too 
> many negative consequences.  However most recently when I logged in I 
> received dozens of error dialog boxes.  The font of the text in the 
> boxes was too small to be read, the splash screen did not appear.  The 
> desktop background was black, instead of my usual wallpaper.  Only the 
> menu panel appeared, and it did not have my usual assortment of launchers 
> and applets.  The font on the menu panel was the same illegible 
> one-point font.
> 
> I logged out and moved away my .gconf directory and logged back in, but 
> that did not seem to change anything.  As I write this, it dawned on me 
> the I forgot to kill gconfd-2...  Any way, what could cause all these 
> problems?  Most especially, how can I restore all my settings?  I ended 
> up moving my entire home directory to a backup location...
> 
> Thanks for any help-
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
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