Chris Woods schreef: > Holly Bostick 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). > > > [...] > > I had this problem pretty persistently for a long time. I believe what finally > fixed it was killing all gnome-session processes, with no X at all running, > and then delete all gnome-related files and directories in $HOME - .gtk* > .gnome* .metacity* .nautilus* Desktop* .gconf* etc - and then restart X by > your usual means, and try logging in to gnome from there. > > HTH, > Chris >
All right, I'm making progress, of a sort. I am currently in GNOME, but don't know if I'll make it through a logout/in. Here's what I did: 1) created a new user (I know I said I wouldn't, but it looks like Edward was right) and logged into GNOME as her; 2) changed a couple of things (more on this later) such as the screen resolution and whatnot and logged out 3) logged in as my regular user under another DE, opened a file manager as root and adjusted the permissions of the 'test' user's home folder so I could get into it; 4) copied the test user's GNOME files to my regular user, overwriting whatever was there (easy enough to identify as the user had no files to speak of but what was installed by default). When I logged out and back into GNOME, it started--- with a lot of errors, but it started (mostly; Nautilus won't start, and stuff like the volume control and the show desktop button had to be removed from gconf). But like I said, it might not survive a logout, so I thought I'd post this all now. Here's the thing, though: it looks like at least some part of this was caused by my unorthodox install (which is another reason I wouldn't recommend this method or perform it ever again). I know we don't like to mention 'that Gentoo-based distro' on this list, but I could use some help in cleaning up its mess if anybody might have a clue what happened. Here's the symptoms: When I created the new user and logged into GNOME, the desktop resolution was Vida's 1024x768 instead of my normal 1280x1024; The default wallpaper was the Vida wallpaper Some gDesklets something was listed to start in the "voluntary startup" section of the Session Manager (which I removed). So obviously, I have retained some Vida default config file somewhere (/etc/skel?), and you can be sure I don't want it. Even if it was appropriate (which it ain't), it's presumably a GNOME 2.10 config, and I downgraded to 2.8.3 when GNOME first broke, as I thought that might help. Now I know what the problem probably was-- when converting to Gentoo I clearly missed something out. I hate to ask, and I'll hang my head in shame while the list derides me (although the trouble and embarassment is really punishment enough), but if anyone happens to know enough about what stupid Vida does to tell me what I need to rm -rf --and what, if anything, I need to emerge to replace it, I would be grateful. Would a complete uninstall of all GNOME packages do it? Naturally, if there's a better way, I'd love to hear it. Thanks, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
