On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:47 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:49 +1200, john wrote:

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On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:52 -0600, Pueblo Native wrote:

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john wrote:

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On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:39 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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John O'Gorman wrote:

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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? Gulp yes!

He has a vast amount of stuff (already safely squirreled away in another directory. I have shrunk from recreating him as a new user as I would then be left with the task of deciding how to selectively restore his old files. If you people cannot come up with a better notion, that is probably my next step.

Try removing any /tmp/gconfd-<user> and /tmp/orbit-<user> files and see what happens. That worked!

Our most grateful thanks to you. That little speck of gold made it worth my while to put up with the irrelevant abuse that poisons this list. regards John O'Gorman

-JP

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