I've had similar symptoms when gconf tried to open two concurrent Gnome sessions for one username. Also, similar "broken" gnome sessions arise when the permissions on the .gconf directory are incorrectly set. (ie AND w/ 700.) Regards, Gavin McDonald -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Boyce Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:44 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Gnome configuration problem Greetings - Dell PE 2600, RHEL3, primarily configured as file server with Samba. Logging into my server and starting X today resulted in an obvious problem. I had a black desktop screen that was blank (several icons are normally on a blue desktop screen) and I was unable to open a file manager window. I am able to open a terminal window and run my Arkeia tape backup software which displays in Xwindows. It appears I may have messed up my Gnome configuration, but am not sure what is wrong, or how to fix it. The only unique actions that occurred on the system the previous day included the installation of the NUT (network ups tools) software from source, and the subsequent uninstallation of NUT. I had never installed from source before and the installation went fine without errors. There was not a *make uninstall* for the program so I followed some instructions to review the *makefile* to see where all the files where installed and delete the files/directories manually. The following directories were removed (actually moved to Trash). /opt/NUT/nut-2.0.1 (contained the unzipped source files) /usr/local/ups/man /usr/local/ups/share /usr/local/ups/bin /usr/local/ups/sbin Up2date is not configured to run in an automated fashion, therefore an updated Gnome could not be the source of the problem. A check of the logfiles shows the information listed below, but this information was also logged on previous days prior to the problem occurring, so I am not sure that it is relevant to the problem. What diagnostic steps can I take to identify the root cause of the problem, and return my desktop to normal? Apr 6 10:24:08 bison -- root[30000]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1 Apr 6 10:24:13 bison modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134 Apr 6 10:24:16 bison gconfd (root-31746): starting (version 2.2.1), pid 31746 user 'root' Apr 6 10:24:16 bison gconfd (root-31746): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Apr 6 10:24:16 bison gconfd (root-31746): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Apr 6 10:24:16 bison gconfd (root-31746): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Jeff Boyce www.meridianenv.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
