create your own username instead of using "root"
If you want to use the privilages of root in your username type in "su"
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Michael McLeod wrote:
> I tried your solution, I did find some old files and deleted as you said, but
> darn it that didn't fix the problem. This problem is unique to root and no
> other user (I only have 1) KDE as root works fine. So I assume it is
> something with gnome root. Any other ideas? This has happened before and I
> reloaded RH 6 completely, this is not disaster, just inconvenient as I am new
> to Linux and still very much in the learning stage. But for learning and
> practical reasons I would like to solve it.
> Michael
>
> "John P. Verel" wrote:
>
> > Two. First, to prevent core dumps, put ulimit -c 100000 in your
> > /etc/profile. This will limit the size of core dumps to whatever
> > number you specify, e.g. 100000
> >
> > Second, Gnome (on my machine) leaves old files (I think they are lock
> > files) laying around my ~/.gnome directory. They look like
> > ".gnome-smproxy-nLhsKF" I delete all but the one which obviously
> > corresponds to the current session. This seems to make a big
> > difference.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On 05/22/00, 10:23:45PM -0400, Michael McLeod wrote:
> > > I am using RH 6 and yesterday while trying to solve a printing problem I
> > > was browsing in linuxconfig, suddenly my computer rebooted and went to
> > > the login page as usual. I logged in as usual but then the problem
> > > began, it took a bit longer for enlightenment to finish loading, the
> > > Gnome splash screen stayed on for about 3 times longer than usual and it
> > > took Gnome what seemed an enormous amount of time to come up (maybe 4
> > > min). Now this always happens unless it do a control+alt+backspace and
> > > restart login, then it goes as fast as usual. Once up Gnome seems to
> > > work as fast as usual but tends to experience "Core dumps".
> > > Any suggestions?
> > > Michael
> > >
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