New Problem

[David M. Carney]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:37:49 -0500, Stephen Durham <smd271 at psu.edu> wrote:
> This might be somewhat related to your problem.
> 
> I am using hoary and updates often trash the desktop. After doing a lot
> of dumb things I found out that deleting the files in /tmp seemed to fix
> my desktop.
> 
> Even after a reboot the files were often still present. Though I did
> delete /tmp on accident once, but that was an easy fix. I hope this
> helps you out.
> -Stephen
> 
> On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 22:26 -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> > It seems I've borked my Gnome desktop.
> >
> > We had a power flicker here and my computer rebooted.
> >
> > Unfortunately, when the power came back on, whenever I try to login to
> > Gnome, the panel locks up. It's completely unresponsive.
> >
> > My background is no longer the same, either.
> >
> > I copied all the Gnome directories to another folder and then I logged
> > into Gnome again, figuring that it would rebuild the folders and thus
> > be rid of any corrupted files.
> >
> > It didn't work. The panel still locks up.
> >
> > My daughter has an account on this machine and her Gnome desktop and
> > panel work perfectly.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Registered Linux User #297958
> >
> 
> 
Thanks for the tip.

Unfortunately, it didn't help.

David

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Registered Linux User #297958