[NBLUG/talk] i killed gnome :(
Nat W
calvin16 at lydiadehn.com
Sun Mar 14 17:08:01 PST 2004
Thanks a lot Dustin :)
- Nat W
-----Original Message-----
From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org] On Behalf Of Dustin
Mollo
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:30 Am
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] i killed gnome :(
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:30:45AM -0800, Dustin Mollo wrote:
> do you have the laptop booting into X, or into just a text console and
then
> you run startx? have you tried logging in as a different user using
gnome?
> if you login as a different user and gnome starts, then it's most likely
> just the gnome conf directories in your home directory have become
corrupt.
> if you login under a text console and do a 'ls -a' you'll see lots of
> dot-directories (directories that start with a period.) a number of those
> are related to gnome as you'll see. you'll loose all your gnome settings,
> but you could try removing those and then try loggin in again.
damn horrible advice. i shoulda thought of this sooner. i just walked him
through poking around /tmp for the corba stuff and whatnot...removed that
and everything worked again. in fact, after he removed that stuff, i
remembered mark mentioning this trick before.
problem solved! :)
-dustin
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