Re: Fail to start Gnome desktop

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Wouter, Sean and others,

Further to my last posting.  I rechecked follows;

# cd /home/satimis/.gconf
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf# ls
%gconf.xml  desktop

# cat %gconf.xml	(no printout)

localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf# cd ./desktop/
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop# ls
%gconf.xml  gnome
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop# cat %gconf.xml
(no printout)

localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop# cd ./gnome/
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome# ls -a
%gconf.xml  .  ..  applications

localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome# cat %gconf.xml
(no printout)

localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome# cd ./applications/
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications# ls -a
%gconf.xml  .  ..  window_manager
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications# cat %gconf.xml
(no printout)

localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications# cd ./
window_manager/
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager# ls 
-a
%gconf.xml  .  ..
localhost:/home/satimis/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager# cat 
%gconf.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="default" mtime="1073275499" muser="satimis" 
type="string"><stringv$
</gconf>

The content inside seems broken

B.R.
Stephen




在 星期一 05 一月 2004 23:56，uws 寫道:
> P� 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.