On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> latest Fedora updates, I could no longer get to the desktop of my >> personal user so in the end I had to go through the same process of >> creating a new user before I could login. But I again had to go through >> the tedious task of copying my personal files and personalising the >> settings of the new user. > > You shouldn't be able to break the desktop that comprehensively even by > doing silly things (well beyond using gconf-editor which is asking for > trouble ;)). How did you manage to break it ? Good question... > Generally for GNOME doing an "rm -rf .gconf" is a reset of the desktop > state and should get you back to sanity. Ditto with ".mozilla" for > firefox. To answer the question it might be better to keep the bogus bits thusly... mv .gconf .gconf-broken mv .mozilla .mozilla-broken Later one might inspect the "broken" bits and sort it out. Other personal bits can be seen with "ls -al $HOME" and "ls -ld $HOME". Perhaps after logging in on a virtual terminal Ctrl-Alt-F1 to keep X11 out of the game. Since a user is broken, as root these would become "ls -al ~brokenuser" and "ls -ld ~brokenuser". -- NiftyFedora T o m M i t c h e l l -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
