Re: problems with gnome and png files

[Stephen Kühn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 06:32, Bob Jaques wrote:
> I rebooted my Redhat enterprise ws yesterday and ran into a message 
> "theme for graphical greeter is corrupt" I could not get by this screen 
> so changed inittab and came up init 3 and ran startx
> 
> all my png icons error
> 
> Redhat support had me reload libpng and all the gnome kits and now 
> things are much worse
> most applications fail such as terminal all fail with process has 
> crashed due to a fatal error
> I have no png icons. 
> 
> This is getting frustrating. I reinstalled every kit with gnome in it [ 
> rpm -ivh --force ] also libpng and gdm.
> 
> Am i missing some kit that is corrupt.
> 
> 
> 
> I am desperate thanks
> bob

Something you can try to do is to login as root, cd into your
/home/yourname directory, and rename the .gtk* and .gnom* directories
and then login as yourself again to have Gnome recreate all of it's
settings/configurations and the likes - should this work, then you can
copy configs from your old directories to reflect your particular
configuration; or even create a new user and login as that...

That would give you a starting point to start trouble shooting the
issues.

HTH

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