Re: Fail to start Gnome desktop

[uws <uws xs4all nl>]

På Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:44:53AM -0500, Sean Middleditch skrev:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:35, uws wrote:
> > P?? Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:13:01AM +0800, Stephen Liu skrev:
> > > 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
> > > [snip]
> > > Shall I rename all above "/.gnome" and /.gnome2" directories?
> > That's what I'd suggest :-)
> > 
> >   $ cd
> >   $ mv .gnome gnome-backupdir
> >   $ mv .gnome2 gnome2-backupdir

> Of course, the settings database isn't in either of those directories,
> its in .gconf.

Aaaargh. I knew that. Well... s/gnome/gconf/s


  mvrgr, Wouter


P.S. Btw, Debian provides a gnome-desktop-environment package.
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