Submitted 24-May-00 by John Grange:
| Anton Graham wrote:
|
| Well, I have tried well over a dozen different builds, all with the
| same result. I *did* get the helix RPM to build properly (stupid
| mistake on my part the first time). It appears, however that the
| basic problem is in the generation of the initial ~/.gnome/metadata.db
| file. After removal of the ~/.gnome directory, the file generated has
| an md5sum of:
|
| 5e9ae0dff8845a586fc7d04e5577c594 metadata.db
|
| Deletion of this file and restart of X generates (consistently) one
| with md5sum:
|
| 01361424b2a7235d311dc931cfc8543d metadata.db
|
| This later metadata.db allows the icons to be changed and has a
| correct icon for Netscape, but all other icons are default. I
| could not determine why it generates two different versions of the
| file, being uncertain as to where to look.
|
| Sorry I couldn't be more help.
|
|
| I would like to rederate, i didn't have to remove any files (desktop or
| otherwise) after installing the latest rounds of updates from helix-gnome
| team the problem went away.
|
| -DarkWlf
|
Yes, the Helix RPM functions correctly without such modifications, but
there are several patches that are part of our RPM and not Helix. I
was hoping to find the reason why ours had the inconsistent behavior.
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