https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354 User jpr@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354#c1 JP Rosevear changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com |vuntz@novell.com --- Comment #1 from JP Rosevear 2008-06-10 11:23:35 MDT --- Vincent, can you take this upstream? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354 User gmongardi@napc.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354#c3 Grant M. changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |gmongardi@napc.com --- Comment #3 from Grant M. 2008-06-10 12:27:09 MDT --- (In reply to comment #2 from Vincent Untz)

Hrm, I can't reproduce. Grant, can you?

Unfortunately, no. But definitively, moving the saved_state file out of the way resolved the issue. I had tried: o repowering & re-logging in o logging in as another user and switching to the problem user o launching various applications (tried thunderbird, firefox, pidgeon, gedit) Note: a newly-created user worked just fine. All produced the same behavior of the desktop becoming unresponsive. Not until I moved the saved_state file out of the way did it work. Could it be that there were some combination of files that caused the issue, and that moving the saved_state file caused it to ignore later files in a chain? Dunno. If it doesn't make sense, just close this. The primary reason I opened it is that I've had other problems with the desktop prior that I wasn't able to resolve, and ended up just deleting the user completely and using a different user, and at one point having to re-install my OS completely (not a happy time for me). Thanks, Grant M. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354 User gmongardi@napc.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354#c5 --- Comment #5 from Grant M. 2008-06-10 14:02:51 MDT --- (In reply to comment #4 from Vincent Untz)

Well, it's really hard to know why this happened :/ If you deleted the user, then we won't be able to get further details about what went wrong (I would have asked you to keep saved_state but move .gconf around, and other stuff). So, let's close the bug. We'll reopen it if someone can see this too.

I didn't delete the user - I'm using it right now to type this. I did create a new user as a test (to make sure that it wasn't the entire system), but that is not this user. Again, the only thing that I did to correct the issue was to move the saved_state file out of the way. Otherwise, this user remains unchanged. Thanks, Grant M. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354 User grant@napc.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396354#c7 --- Comment #7 from Grant M. 2008-06-12 05:13:59 MDT --- (In reply to comment #6 from Vincent Untz)

And if you put back the saved_state file, it still works? How did you check saved_state was empty? Do you remember the permissions of the file?

Not quite sure what you mean by that. Basically, after trying the things stated earlier, I just moved the saved_state aside, and rebooted and logged back in. The saved_state file was recreated as part of the login process. The 'broken' file had the same exact ownership and permissions as the newly-created one, except the newly-created one wasn't empty. Here are the perms: drwx------ 2 grant users 4096 2008-06-12 07:07 . drwxr-xr-x 52 grant users 4096 2008-06-11 16:37 .. -rwx------ 1 grant users 70264 2008-06-12 07:07 saved_state -rwx------ 1 grant users 0 2008-06-02 07:17 saved_state.bust -rw-r--r-- 1 grant users 0 2008-06-10 14:18 test That last file, 'test' shows as identical when diff'd against the .bust one. It was created using "cat /dev/null > ./test". I did that just to make sure it was a truly empty file, and there wasn't something weird with either the filesystem, or the file. Thanks, Grant M. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.