Yet another big gnome problem (YABGP)

[Nicolai Spohrer]

Michael R. Head schrieb:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:49 +0100, Nicolai Spohrer wrote:
>> Ed Smits schrieb:
>>> an idiot's way of fixing things when I screw up like that - give the
>>> other account sudo rights, log in under that acc't - use sudo to
>>> change your normal home directory name to something else, log out. Log
>>> back in under your usual user name, it will assume this is your first
>>> session under Gnome and create you a whole new Gnome to mess around
>>> in. Copy your necessary /home files from your old directory back into
>>> your new one - don't forget to copy the hidden ones EXCEPT for any
>>> that look to be related to Gnome - I usually just copy .mozilla and
>>> .vmware, leave the rest behind.
>> Hm... I just tried to remove the .gnome and .gnome2 folder, but the same
>> problem appeared... Sad :-/ I do not really want to go that "idiot way",
>> because mich programs have changed settings and so... There MUST be
>> another solution, right? :'-(
> 
> Can you attach the .xsession-errors file after attempting to log into
> GNOME? (log in with the broken account, then log in with the working
> account and attach /home/<broken username>/.xsession-errors
> 
> mike
> 
>> sad greetings :-[
>>
Well, I already looked at this file, but it seems gnome does not TRY to
start, so there's no entry. KDE is making entries. That is really really
strange... I have no idea what to do. Typing "gnome-session" in a
failsafe x-term-session produce no output and a strange white thing in
the left side of my monitor. ohoho....

nicolai

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