Sorry if this comes through multiple times, but I think something something is filtering my messages out.
Is there a way to completely reset GNOME? Right now, GNOME is completely unusable for me. Something happened when I ran yum update last night. (e.g., clicking on a link in thunderbird results in "ERROR: The browser does not exist. Please reconfigure." and then right after, The Application "control-center" has quit unexpectedly.) Trying to set the theme in GNOME results in "The default theme schemas could not be found on your system. This means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your gconf is configured incorrectly."
I tried creating a new user and what comes up for that user is the Computer icon and Trash icon with a completely black background. There is a small panel, about 200 pixels across at the top without any icons in it. I assume this is not normal. So, is there a way to reload everything from scratch? I tried running this as well:
for i in /etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas ; do GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule $i > /dev/null; done
but that results in numerous errors e.g.:
WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/motion_acceleration' locale `gl': Unable to store a value at key '/schemas/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/motion_acceleration', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the tim e the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lo ck. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. The re can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~ /.gconf
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-Albert