(warty) gnome-panel crash on login

[Shawn Christopher]

Had I wished you woulda posted this about 3 days ago. Everything that
you did I just did last night till I got tired of it and formated and
threw Ubuntu back on. However now I know HAHA! I tried to install
Enlightenment before that happened and I wonder if that broke .xsession?
Anyhow thanks for finding a fix.

Shawn

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 12:28 +0900, toyfactory wrote:
> Panic over!  Removing my old .metacity folder and the sessions
> subfolder
> (filled with cryptic session ids - what are they?) allowed me to log
> in
> again without gnome-panel crashing on startup.  And the folder whose
> contents I thought had vanished?  Ctrl-H  It seems cursing Gnome
> reduced
> the blood flow to the important part of my brain marked 'thinking'.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:21:30 +0900, "toyfactory"
> <toyfactory at xsmail.com>
> said:
> > Well, I tried uninstalling completely and then reinstalling
> gnome-panel,
> > gnome-panel-data, gnome-applets and gnome-applets data without
> success.
> > 
> > After some fiddling around I managed to create a new user and login
> > successfully, I then tried to backup my existing gnome config files
> and
> > copy the fresh config files from the new user.  After more fiddling
> to
> > get the groups and permissions right I restarted gnome and logged in
> as
> > the old user.  Same problem, but now I discover the folder I put my
> > backup config files in is, you guessed it, completely empty!  So I'm
> > back to square one, minus all my config files.  Well, maybe I didn't
> > need them anyway...
> > 
> > The rate this is going I'll end up having to reinstall the whole
> damn
> > system just because gnome decided to throw a hissy fit for no
> apparent
> > reason.  Which conveniently brings me to my next question (see
> another
> > post).
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:15:23 +0900, "toyfactory"
> <toyfactory at xsmail.com>
> > said:
> > > Just now Gnome-panel crashed, and kept crashing.  I hit Ctrl-Alt-
> > > Backspace and tried to log in again, same problem.  I hit
> Ctrl-Alt-
> > > Backspace and restarted, same problem when I try to log back in.
> > > 
> > > I don't know what I did to cause this problem, other than
> successfully
> > > installing the xchm file viewer using Synaptic, and unsuccessfully
> > > attempting to copy a Firefox Internet shortcut from the desktop to
> a
> > > mounted vfat drive. Gnome is now unusable so for the time being
> it's
> > > back to Windows (which incidentally feels a good deal more
> responsive
> > > than Gnome).
> > > 
> > > I've tried to remove and reinstall gnome-panel using the
> 'safe-mode'
> > > login but it hasn't solved the problem.  Is there anything else I
> should
> > > try to reinstall or are there any configuration files that might
> have
> > > gotten mangled?
> > > 
> > > Thanks again for your help,
> > > 
> > > Nick
> > > 
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