On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:55:57AM -0800, Johnson, Jeffreyx L wrote: > Hey friends, > > Upon changing the home directory of root to / (via /etc/passwd)(these > are test machines) root's gnome-panel crashes and will not start up. > > I checked the gnome bug log and cant find any info. Any one have any > idea? > I think the answer is basically "don't do that then" - twofold, first "don't log in to X as root" and second "don't change root's homedir to /" ;-) But if it crashes, to debug you need to get debug symbols for the panel (which means rebuilding it or obtaining a -debuginfo package) and then walk through the bug report wizard (if you don't want to file a new bug, just click show debug details on the first page of it then cut-and-paste the backtrace into your existing bugs). Havoc
