Re: GNOME crashes

[Art Ross <aross skyenet net>]

Kalum / Grendel wrote:

> On  Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Art Ross commented thusly,
>
> > I have GNOME crashing for one of the user accounts.  This may have
> > started a few weeks ago when the Xserver would start from the 'startx'
> > command but would terminate before bringing up GNOME.  Well, it know
> > will not even start GNOME.  This is for just one user account, so I
> > think a configuration file is corrupted.  Does anyone have any idea of
> > what might be corrupted or unstable?
>
> I dunno, you might check your logs, but it is highly likely to be some
> file in the /home/offendinguser/.gnome directory.
>
> So IMHO, the easiest way to solve this problem is to delete the users
> .gnome sub directory in his homedir and then startx should work fine and
> when gnome is run for the first time after that it will recreate the
> directory structure.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Grendel
>
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Grendel,
  You're exactly correct.  Someone else emailed me directly with some
suggestions similar to yours.  I moved all my .gnome and .enlightenment
directories into a different directory called 'oldgnome'.  Once I had
GNOME up and running again, I pulled the original directories back in the
home directory of the offending user.  I cannot recall which directory had
the problem but I was able to recover 90% of the original GNOME
configuration.
  Thanks for the help.
  Art