gnome desktop crashing!

[APR Trainees <apr trainees gmail com>]

another thing friends,
SOMETIMES if i delete all the gconfd realted files (.gconf,.desktop
etc ) the desktop is restored.
so i feel gconfd is the problem but dunno how........

thanx
Richa

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From: APR Trainees <apr trainees gmail com>
Date: Apr 13, 2005 12:12 PM
Subject: gnome desktop crashing!
To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org, gconf-list gnome org,
gnome-redhat-list gnome org, "gnome-list gnome org"
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hi friends,

I used gconftool-2 to first shutdown the gconfd and then made changed
to the applet id list to add an applet to the panel on startup........
however when i do this form the root and rebbot thje machine
again.........the desktop goes haywire .Its completely destroyed.cant
see anything but some gray and black and red patches (which look like
a part of some error messages also!!) as if its hanged.

could some1 shed some light on why its happening!
i'm using redhat.

thanx,
Richa