resetting GNOME

[fedora-list at amlai.com]

I think I've figured this out myself.

First, I didn't realize that the following needed to be run as root:
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

After that, I ran this as a user:
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=desktop_gnome_interface.schemas

-Albert

At 10/01/2006 08:48 AM, fedora-list at amlai.com wrote:
> 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
>