Re: Fail to start Gnome desktop

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Wouter,

Thanks for your advice.

As per your advice, I performed following steps/test with the same result 
obtained :-Gnome desktop failed to start

On KDE console
$ cd /home/satimis
$ mv .gnome .gnome-backupdir
$ mv .gnome2 .gnome2-backupdir

logout and relogin GNOME as USER

login GNOME as USER without problem but still could not start GNOME desktop

Rebooted PC and login GNOME as USER again.  Same result

# 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

Same directories and files re-created.

B.R.
Stephen



在 星期一 05 一月 2004 23:35，uws 寫道:
> 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
>
> That's all. Make sure you do this in a console (no X session!)
>
>   mvrgr, Wouter