Larry W. Virden writes: > > It turned out that my /etc/gconf database was completely > > corrupt. > > how does one know when this is corrupt and how does it get recreated? It did work after recreating it, so it must have been corrupt before ;-) I build my own RPMs and didn't know how that whole GConf stuff works. It's not that the documentation is exhaustive after all. All packages install the schemas as part of the 'make install' so I packaged the XML files created from the schemas with the rest of the files. I still don't know why, but that seemed to have broken something. You can recreate the system database (w/o your local changes of course) using these commands GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` \ gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule <schema files> Best regards, Marcus _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list