Congrates on your future success with Redhat. Here's my explaination and list of commands. "dot" files in your home directories contain settings relevant to a certain program. (i.e., .mozilla, .gnome, .chromium, .gimp) After upgrading your system, several of those "dot" files are now confusing the newer version of the program. I hope this makes sense. Here are the steps I would take to clean this up. (you will lose settings) Bring up a command line as normal user(always better to log in as normal user, and "su -" to root) ---type--- $su - (enter # rm -rf /tmp # rm -rf ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome* ~/.gtk* (the ~ is a shortcut for your home directory, in this case /root) Do this last command in the home directory of your "normal" user account. # cd /home/$user # rm -rf ."same as above" **reboot**(this is important) I hope this helps a little. There are probably other ways of solving your problem. Some people might object to removing their "dot" files, but I see nothing wrong with it. Ideally, this shouldn't have happened. I have found that it's safer never to upgrade. I always reformat. Too many things can go wrong with an upgrade. I like a fresh install. I try to keep a separate partition which I keep my files on, so that the system partition can be reformatted without losing data. Let me know if you need any more help. Jeremy West Office of Information Technology Communications Assistant -----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Mclaughlin Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 2:36 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: gnome startup error Thanks for the reply Jeremy. I haven't done any corrective action yet. I need some expert tutelage before playing on the command line. This is a straight upgrade from RH8 to RH9 without any addons or tweaking. I have done all the RH up2dates. Could you give me the commands to delete the .gconfd file and do I just do a reinstall of Gnome from the CD? Just assume I'm Sgt Schultz and "I know nothing". TIA Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of >Jeremy West >Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 2:58 PM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: gnome startup error > > >Have you deleted your ~/.gconfd file, and >reinstalled gconf? Is this a >vanilla install, and if not, then what addon's or >tweaking have you >done? > >Jeremy West >Office of Information Technology >Communications Assistant > > >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] >On Behalf Of Bob Mclaughlin >Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:49 PM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: FW: gnome startup error > > >I sent this message a couple of times over the weekend and >got no response. Any help available today? >> >>When I give the startx command, Gnome comes up >>partly with gibberish and hangs. Ctrl-Alt F1 >>gives me a message that says: (nautilus:1439): >>Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Failed to contact >>configuration server; some possible causes are >>that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for >>ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system >>crash. See http://gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for >>information. (Details - 1: IOR file >>'home/bob/.gconfd/lock/ior' not opened >>successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or >directory. >> >>The gnome.org site doesn't seem to address >>corrective actions for this. I may not know what >>they mean by NFS. I'm running Ext3 file system. >>Can anyone offer some guidance? >> >>Bob McLaughlin >> > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
