Re: [sabayon] hang during login / completely removing Sabayon

[Andrew Z <andrewz springsrescuemission org>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:41 -0700, Andrew Z wrote:
>  
>
> > I used Sabayon on a terminal server running Fedora Core 4.  Then I 
> > removed Sabayon, but we are having a strange, annoying problem which 
> > seems to be correlated only to the user accounts previously managed 
> > Sabayon.  The problem is that *sometimes* when a user logs into Gnome, 
> > he sees only the solid blue Gnome background and mouse cursor.  Neither 
> > the splash screen nor the desktop ever come up.
> > The problem is worked around by running "rm -rf /tmp/*usernamefoo*" and 
> > then asking the user to login again.  Specifically, it seems 
> > "/tmp/gconfd-usernamefoo/lock/ior" may be to blame.
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestions on troubleshooting or fixing this problem?  
> > Will "rpm -e" remove all of Sabayon and its changes, or are additional 
> > steps required?
> >    
>
> Sabayon installs /etc/gconf/2/local-defaults.path
> and /etc/gconf/2/local-mandatory.path files that include
>  
These files do not exist.

> $(HOME)/.gconf.path.defaults and $(HOME)/.gconf.path.mandatory into the
> gconf tree. Maybe these are somehow left?
>  
A set of these (for a certain user who has problems) did not include 
anything interesting.

> I'm not sure what else could be wrong.
>  
Thanks for the tips.  It seems Sabayon is clear, so maybe it's a gconfd bug.


Andrew