Howto reset a Gnome user profile??

[Duncan Anderson]

Senectus . wrote:

>On 12/11/05, Seth Hasani <sepheebear at gmail.com> wrote:
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>><quote who="Senectus ." on Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:27:54AM EST>
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>>>>I usually just drop to a shell then do:
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>>>>    mkdir oldconfig mv .g* oldconfig/ rm .esd_auth rm .ICEauthority rm
>>>>    .Xauthority
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>>>I followed these instructions, and it had no effect, exactly the same
>>>result :-/ I'm not sure if I mentioned this earlier or not, but to run a
>>>little test I created a new user, and logged in as that user, the gnome
>>>session started perfectly.  it _has_ to be something with my profile :-/
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>>Yipes! Sounds like you've been having some fun with gnome. When it gets that
>>interesting for me, I just move everything from home to ~/oldconfig/ except
>>~/.bashrc, then login and gnome creates everything anew again. I then
>>proceed to move a few things back at a time starting with things that I
>>absolutely know wont effect gnome (like .fetchmailrc). But anything gnome or
>>nautilus related is scrutinized heavily before being readded and nothing
>>.gconf related ever gets back in. The great thing is that everything is
>>under your $HOME folder so it's relatively more simple to track down the
>>problem.
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>Well I've even created a new home dir given it the correct permissions
>then rm -rf everything in my /tmp dir and it _still_ does the same
>thing..
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>0.o I think I'm looking at a rebuild :-(
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No! Don't do that! Why don't you just delete everything in your home 
directory(apart from your data and maybe .bashrc of course), then 
delete   everything in /tmp and /usr/tmp and then reboot and try to login.

No harm can come to your system if you reboot after nuking the contents 
of temporary directories.

Good luck.

Duncan


		
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