Well, this may or may not help you, but when I start having weird problems with gconf it's always been permissions problems for me. One time I messed with some of the .gconf folders and inadvertently changed the permissions on them, and so nothing was working. You could *try* this to make sure they are correct:
cd ~theuser chown -R theuser:theuser .gconf .gconfd chmod 700 -R .gconf .gconfd find .gconf -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; find .gconfd -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; Jason > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Reix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gconf-list@gnome.org > Subject: gnome-terminal does not start > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:15:07 +0100 > > > Hi, > > I hope this mailing list is the one I must talk about my problem (since > there is no gnome-terminal list and I'm not an expert of Gnome). > If note=, just let me know and I'll post on the appropriate list. > > > I have a problem with gnome-terminal: > > - when only 1 or 2 Profiles have been created for opening a new tab, > gnome-terminal works perfectly well > > - when several (about 25 in my cases) profiles have been defined, > opening a new gnome-terminal fails: the window appears and > disappears after less than 1 second. > > If I remove the directories global and profiles from: > ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal > and then restart gconfd (or close the session, don't remember exactly), > then these directories are recreated (with only one Default profile) and > I can again open a gnome-terminal. > > The problem appeared when I rebooted the machine. > Since the machine was up during more than one month and since I've > updated many packages, I cannot say when the problem appeared. > The last package I updated with yum was FireFox. > > > (At the first time, the problem was worst: even with 1 (Default) > profile, I was not able to open a gnome-terminal, for 2 users but not > for root. A colleague changed some security configuration and then I was > able to open a gnome-terminal with only 1 profile.) > > > My environment is: > - user different than root > - FedoraCore4 > - i386 (Pentium4 2.6 GHz) > - GConf2-2.10.0-4 (which seems to be last version available for FC2) > > > > Regards, > > Tony > > > _______________________________________________ > gconf-list mailing list > gconf-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list > _______________________________________________ gconf-list mailing list gconf-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list