I faced a problem like this few weeks ago, it was a permission problem, some files and directories used by Gnome (at the user's home) had wrong permissions, all I had to do were some recursive chown and chgrp and it all worked fine, dunno if its your problem, but you should check it.
On 5/31/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. > > The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as > a user (works fine as root). > > The splash screen comes up, but only 2 icons show in the progress bar > before the splash disappears-- Sessions, and Window manager, iirc. > Already not good (no Nautilus, no Metacity, no gnome-panel...). > > Then the panel tries to come up, the panel backgrounds (currently set as > the default top and bottom panels) display (empty), then disappear. This > happens about 5 or 6 times (I suspect related to how many panel applets > are attempting to load). No desktop appears, no panels load, right-click > on the desktop produces no menu (since Nautilus isn't running, > presumably) and since I don't know the GNOME shortcut key to open a Run > Box, I pretty much have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace out to GDM and load > another WM. > > This happens with both the regular GNOME entry and the Failsafe GNOME entry. > > I have deleted ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd, ~/.gnome, ~/.gnome2, > ~/.gnome2_private, and ~/.gnome_private and allowed my login attempt to > regenerate them (supposedly), but this had no effect. Since GNOME loads > fine when root logs in, GNOME itself is presumably not broken, but > rather the user is. > > What's left to delete and regenerate? Does anybody know what I might do > to fix this (short of creating a new user, which I'm not going to do :) )? > > Thanks for any help, > > Holly, hanging out in IceWM while KDE 3.4.1 compiles. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
