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

[WAM III]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 13:09 -0400, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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Thanks for your reply, I did that also when I lost the .gnome*
directories, forgot to mention it, but it was done :-/ ....