Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2876 mails)

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john wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:39 -0400, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> John O'Gorman wrote:
>>     
>>> One user has a corrupted GNOME desktop.
>>> When he logs in, about 3 icons show, no task bar, no menus.
>>> Lots of error dialogue boxes pop up.
>>>
>>> Dozens of error messages:
>>> GConf Error: Adding client to server's l;ist failed, CORBA error:
>>> IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
>>>
>>> The book suggested renaning .gconf and .gnome2 (actually misprinted
>>> as ./gconf and ./gnome2). I did this. When the user logged in again, no
>>> change.
>>>
>>> All other users are OK.
>>> I added another user - OK also.
>>>
>>> This is not a show-stopper as he can use KDE instead and that still
>>> works.
>>>
>>> OS is SuSE 10.0. All the users are logging in on thin clients (LTSP
>>> Linux Terminal Server Project) which have worked fine for 5 years.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> If he deletes the directories containing the gnome stuff and logs in
>> with gnome, he should be OK, though he'll have lost all his settings.
>>     
>
> That's what I thought we had done by mv'ing .gconf and .gnome2
> I also mv'ed .gnome
> The dirs all got rebuilt but the bug remained.
> There must be some other dirs as well. Does anyone know what they are?
>
> John O'Gorman
>   
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>>     
>
>   

How about .xinitrc?
And this sounds a bit extreme, but on the presumption that this is the
only user being affected, have you thought about tarballing his
directory, deleting, and adding him again?

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