[ale] ongoing problems w/ users on CentOS 5.3 ....

[Brian MacLeod]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM, WAM III <lws at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> .... This is submitted as a follow-on to another thread I started from
> home w/ approximately the above subject line. I am logged in (&
> list-subbed) from work to hopefully expedite. I tried the procedure as
> recommended on the other thread (boot in runlevel 3, blow away
> all .gnome* diles/directories, then startx & let gnome initialize
> itself). that failed, but w/ (hopefully) some clues. I attach the last
> few lines from my syslog file which reference gconfd & 1 gnome error.
> When the gnome startup failed, it put up a dialog saying it failed to
> connect to socket /tmp/dbus-wX8NISVDe7 w/ a 'connection refused'. It
> also had dialogs saying that Nautilus had an unexpected error from
> Bonobo when trying to register the file manager view server. Everything
> else looks OK (permissions, SELinux contexts, etc.). The account is just
> the stub created by the 'users & grioups' manager, w/ the old directory
> renamed to a non-conflicting name in /home. Please advise & thanks in
> advance for your time & any clues :-) ....
>


The previous thread mentioned moving the .gnome directories, but I don't see
it suggesting to move the .gconf directories either.  .gconf contains stuff
that to me reminds me of user registries in that other OS, particularly how
parts of GNOME apps interact with others.  I would suggest making that move
and trying again.  I know this was necessary when I was playing with some
changes in my Ubuntu installation that messed with quite a few things.


Brian
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