Problems while upgrading to FC3

[michal at cvu.wustl.edu]

   I did what Mostafa suggested by rm -rf .gc* and rm -rf .gn*.
   But it did not work. After logging in to this account which had
   problems I got the same message. Did I remove everything?

   I created a new user and I don't have any problems while
   logging and afterwards.

   Here is a list of gnome related directories in user directory
   which has  problems after I removed .gc* and .gn* directories
   and started gdm.

[root at ml-cvu michall]# ll ~michal/.gn*
/home/michal/.gnome:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x  2 michal michal 4096 Nov 17 14:32 gnome-vfs
drwx------  2 michal michal 4096 Nov 17 14:32 mime-info

/home/michal/.gnome2:
total 12
drwx------  2 michal michal 4096 Nov 17 14:32 accels
drwx------  2 michal michal 4096 Nov 17 14:32 keyrings
drwxr-xr-x  4 michal michal 4096 Nov 17 14:32 share

/home/michal/.gnome2_private:
total 0
[root at ml-cvu michall]# ll ~michal/.gc*
total 40
-rwx------  1 michal michal 40694 Nov 17 14:34 saved_state

 And here is a list of gnome related directories in new user directory

[michall at ml-cvu ~]$ ll .gc*
.gconf:
total 8
drwx------  6 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 14:37 apps
drwx------  3 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 desktop

.gconfd:
total 48
-rwx------  1 michall michall 48908 Nov 17 14:50 saved_state

[root at ml-cvu michall]# ll .gn*
.gnome:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x  2 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 gnome-vfs
drwx------  2 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 mime-info

.gnome2:
total 24
drwx------  2 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 accels
-rw-rw-r--  1 michall michall   39 Nov 17 14:49 gedit-2
drwx------  2 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 keyrings
drwxrwxr--  2 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 nautilus-scripts
drwx------  3 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 panel2.d
drwxr-xr-x  4 michall michall 4096 Nov 17 13:22 share

.gnome2_private:
total 0

So, there is a discrepancy between these two lists.

One solution which is not very elegant is to back up files
of the user with problems, remove this user, and create this
user again.

  Any better solutions are appreciated.

   Michal


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> michal at cvu.wustl.edu wrote:
> |   I think we have problem with corrupted .gconf file.
> |   I don't have any clue how to fix it.
> |
> |  Any suggestions are appreciate.
> |
> |   Michal
> |
> |
> |>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:23:20 -0600, Michal Lijowski
> |><michal at cvu.wustl.edu> wrote:
> |>
> |>>I have upgraded from FC2 to FC3, but I have encountered problem
> |>>when logging as a user using Gnome.
> |>>When I login I get the message
> |>>
> |>>There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> |>>
> |>>Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not
> work
> |>>correct
> |>>ly.
> |>>
> |>>The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
> |>>
> |>>The last error message was:
> |>>
> |>>Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
> |>>
> |>>GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
> |>>in.
> |>>
> |>>The Main Menu does not work. When I left click it the whole panel
> blinks
> |>>and there is no menu. So, in order to logoff I had to do reboot.
> |>>I have followed http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-
> |>>November/msg01805.html, but this did not work when I logon again.
> |>>
> |>>If I logon as root, Gnome starts without problems.
> |>>
> |>>One more thing, when I invoke gedit as user I get the message
> |>>
> |>>gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined
> |>>symbol: xmlNewTextReaderFilename and gedit won't open.
> |>>When I am logon as root, gedit start with no problem.
> |>>
> |>>I can start KDE desktop as the user without any error messages.
> |>
> |>I have also have this problem on my last upgrade but finally fixed
> |>after fresh install...
> |>In last, I also can't run the progams such as setting program from the
> |>gnome panel even a root account was used.
> |>
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> |
> Anytime I run into such problems I just remove all GNOME related "."
> files/folders, restart GDM and login again .. GNOME reverts to default
> settings but it really isn't that big a deal to recustomize .. ;)
>
> Best,
> - -M
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