So where are my workspaces??

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:45:54 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:

> Beartooth <beartooth <at> comcast.net> writes:

>> 	Since, as I confirmed above, I did have session saving enabled
>> before doing the preupgrade, I'm likely suffering under
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698184 and
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647359 .

> Since you're fortunate enough to have a terminal to start applications
> from, you can just run gnome-session-properties, uncheck the "remember
> running applications" option, then log out by running
> gnome-session-quit. 

	All right, many thanks! I did those two.

> On your next login, things should be back to normal
> (but without session saving). 

	Nope, alas! I get a picture of a sad face on a screen, telling me 
"Oh no, something has gone wrong." It says to log in again, so I tried. 
Three times. No joy. Nor can either of the other users on the login 
screen (whose passwords I have) get even that far. Both get messages 
about a failure to update a .ICEauthority file.

	Of course, root can't log in either; and Ctrl-Alt-Delete does 
only a logout, not a reboot. I hit the reset button. Still no joy.

> If you didn't have the terminal, the bug
> reports indicate how to fix things in general by going to a VT and
> deleting a file. In the latter case, you'd still have to run g-s-p to
> disable session saving afterwards, otherwise the same thing would happen
> again on the next login.

	I saw talk of that in one of the bugzilla discussions, and 
refrained from pointing our there that I haven't the foggiest notion of 
what is meant by going to Virginia Tech (what VT stands for around here), 
nor how to do it electronically.

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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.