Hi Wouter, Thanks for your advice. As per your advice, I performed following steps/test with the same result obtained :-Gnome desktop failed to start On KDE console $ cd /home/satimis $ mv .gnome .gnome-backupdir $ mv .gnome2 .gnome2-backupdir logout and relogin GNOME as USER login GNOME as USER without problem but still could not start GNOME desktop Rebooted PC and login GNOME as USER again. Same result # locate .gnome /home/satimis/.gnome /home/satimis/.gnome/application-info /home/satimis/.gnome/apps /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/.directory /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/.order /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/calc.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/draw.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/impress.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/math.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/printeradmin.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome/apps/OpenOffice.org 1.1.0/writer.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome/mime-info /home/satimis/.gnome2 /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-2NmKri /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-cJCvBi /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-FpJvUf /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-FZIMvE /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-jTQroS /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-My8xW7 /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-rfBHSe /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-uvitQN /home/satimis/.gnome2/.gnome-smproxy-Y7OceL /home/satimis/.gnome2/accels /home/satimis/.gnome2/gdm /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645calc.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645draw.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645impress.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645math.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645printeradmin.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645template.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645web.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2/vfolders/applications/ooo645writer.desktop /home/satimis/.gnome2_private /root/.gnome /root/.gnome2 /root/.gnome2_private Same directories and files re-created. B.R. Stephen å ææä 05 äæ 2004 23:35ïuws åé: > Pï Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:13:01AM +0800, Stephen Liu skrev: > > Kindly advise how to check the corrupted settings database. Which config > > file/files I have to check? > > > > > Rename your ~./gnome and your ~/.gnome2 directories and try again. > > > > locate .gnome > > [snip] > > > > Shall I rename all above "/.gnome" and /.gnome2" directories? > > That's what I'd suggest :-) > > $ cd > $ mv .gnome gnome-backupdir > $ mv .gnome2 gnome2-backupdir > > That's all. Make sure you do this in a console (no X session!) > > mvrgr, Wouter _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
