Re: Fail to start Gnome desktop

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Wouter,

Thanks for your advice.

- snip -
> Make sure you don't have a corrupted settings database.

Kindly advise how to check the corrupted settings database.  Which config 
file/files I have to check?

> Rename your 
> ~./gnome and your ~/.gnome2 directories and try again. 

locate .gnome
/home/satimis/.gnome
/home/satimis/.gnome/application-info
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/.directory
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/.order
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/calc.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/draw.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/impress.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/math.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/printeradmin.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/writer.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome/mime-info
/home/satimis/.gnome2
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-2NmKri
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-cJCvBi
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-FpJvUf
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-FZIMvE
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-jTQroS
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-My8xW7
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-rfBHSe
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-uvitQN
/home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-Y7OceL
/home/satimis/.gnome2/accels
/home/satimis/.gnome2/gdm
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645calc.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645draw.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645impress.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645math.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645printeradmin.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645template.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645web.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645writer.desktop
/home/satimis/.gnome2_private
/root/.gnome
/root/.gnome2
/root/.gnome2_private

Shall I rename all above "/.gnome" and /.gnome2" directories?

TIA

B.R.
Stephen



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> next time you try to login, you know where to look ;-)
>
>   mvrgr, Wouter