On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:36:52PM -0500, William Witt wrote: > On 12/03/2009 04:33 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > I should perhaps mention that this machine (my #1) got royally, > >unbootably bollixed a few days ago, and ended up with a fresh install of > >F12 -- into which I began trying to scp /home/btth from #2 -- and messed > >that up so that there seem to be several partial copies scattered all > >over it in spots, to the point that the hard drive thinks it's > >effectively full .... At any rate, "df -h" shows it far fuller than it > >ought to be. > > This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf > directory. So try this: > > -After a reboot at the login screen press Crtl+Alt F2 > -Log in text mode with your user acct > -issue the folloing commands > mv .gconf bak.gconf > mv .gconfd bak.gconfd > mv .gnome2 bak.gnome2 > mv .gnome2_private bak.gnome2_private > > -This is the tactical nuke of gnome config problems. This will > force gnome to recreate your gnome configuration on next login > -Press Crtl-Alt F1 and you should be back at the GUI login screen, > so log in again and see if you have panels. All of your old config > settings are stored in th bak. directories so you can selectively > copy them over if you have something (like f-spot) that is not easy > to just reconfigure. > > Hopefully this helps Yikes, that's a LOT of work for this one problem, and a lot of customization to comb through later. *At most* you would want to backup .gconf/apps/panel -- not the whole kit 'n' kaboodle. Still not sure that's necessary though. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
