[24049] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.16: gnome
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Sep 11 19:00:32 2003
Message-Id: <200309112300.h8BN0VZI001868@dit.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: wdc@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, zacheiss@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:11:02 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:00:30 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>I don't totally understand what all went wrong with your dotfiles. I
>suggest running:
>
> gconftool-2 --shutdown
> mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf.aside
> mv ~/.gnome2 ~/.gnome2.aside
>
>and then logging out and logging back in. If that doesn't work, then
>something is wrong beyond what I currently know about.
This didn't work on the problem machine (dit, in N42-013). When I try
it and log back in, it asks me if I want to convert my gnome1 prefs to
gnome2 (I tried answering this both ways- it made no difference to the
subsequent behavior). Then, I get a couple of garbled gnome dialog
boxes, probably indicating some sort of failure- I can't read the text
in them. Then, I get a yellow terminal window with incredibly tiny
font size. About all I can do then is log out and back in again. When
I do, I get a yellow terminal with normal-sized fonts, and the funny
menus at the top.
After this state, I left my dot files as they were and tried logging
in on a different Sun- I get the funny menus at the top. I try the
fix as above on the other machine. When I log back in there, things
are back to normal. Then I log back in on the problem machine-
yellow terminal, funny menus at the top. I think two things are happening-
my dot files are getting corrupted, and some files local to the problem
machine are bad- nothing I do on the problem machine fixes the problem
there.
>Alex, assuming you moved aside the .gconf and .gnome2 directories as I
>suggested in my last piece of mail, can you tar up the moved-aside
>directories and put the tarfiles somewhere I can get at them?
I went through at least 3 rounds of deleting these as I tried various things-
I'm not sure what state I was in when I created the last set- do you still
want them?
Could someone possibly make a house call? It might be easier to
understand what is going on.... I ran at least three things to try to
fix the machine: "/srvd/install/athchanges" as root, "athrun release
fixpanel" and "gconftool-2 --shutdown", and deleted all my ~/.gnome*
and ~/.gconf files at least five times... I strongly suspect that I've
got bad gnome files on this machine that aren't in my dotfiles...
Right now the lack ot key autorepeat is the most annoying part of this...
Alex
