Gnome Panel crash. FC3.

[Nat Gross]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Nat Gross wrote:
>
>> Upon logging in, I get errors relating to gnome-panel, and it gives 
>> me the option to close or restart. Either way, the problem cycles 
>> again, and the few buttons on the panel do not work. I can't even 
>> logout via c-a-d, it just hangs. I have to hit the switch which 
>> forces an immediate shutdown. Under Root, I CAN use Gnome, but with 
>> my regular login I am forced to use kde in order to work.
>> This happened after a 'yum -y update'. The kernel was already the 
>> latest prior to the recent yum update:2.6.11-1.14. FC3.
>> How do I fix this? I can ssh into this box at the moment.
>> Thank you all.
>> -nat
>>
>
> The following steps provide one way to set a user's home environment 
> back to defaults. In the example below, replace username with the 
> login id of the user you wish to reset the desktop defaults. NOTE: 
> This will replace all of the user settings with defaults, including 
> setting made in things like mozilla, bash and similar programs..
>
>   1. Backup the users home directory.
>
> # mv /home/username /home/username.bak
>
>   2. Add a test user to the system.
>
> # useradd test
>   3. Move the user's home directory to the old user's home.
>
> # mv /home/test /home/username
>
>   4. Clean up the test account.
>
> # userdel test
>
>   5. Copy any files the user still needs into the new home directory.
>
> # cp /home/username.bak/somefilename /home/username/
>
>   6. Change the ownership of user's new directory so that the user owns
>      all files in their home directory.
>
> # chown -R username.username /home/username
>
>   7. Test this set-up by logging into the graphics as this user.
>
> regards
> Rahul
>
I can't afford to reset all to default. I need a fix for Gnome, that's all.
Thanks.
-nat