Problems while upgrading to FC3

[Mostafa Z. Afgani]

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michal at cvu.wustl.edu wrote:
|   I think we have problem with corrupted .gconf file.
|   I don't have any clue how to fix it.
|
|  Any suggestions are appreciate.
|
|   Michal
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|>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:23:20 -0600, Michal Lijowski
|><michal at cvu.wustl.edu> wrote:
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|>>I have upgraded from FC2 to FC3, but I have encountered problem
|>>when logging as a user using Gnome.
|>>When I login I get the message
|>>
|>>There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
|>>
|>>Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
|>>correct
|>>ly.
|>>
|>>The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
|>>
|>>The last error message was:
|>>
|>>Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
|>>
|>>GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
|>>in.
|>>
|>>The Main Menu does not work. When I left click it the whole panel blinks
|>>and there is no menu. So, in order to logoff I had to do reboot.
|>>I have followed http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-
|>>November/msg01805.html, but this did not work when I logon again.
|>>
|>>If I logon as root, Gnome starts without problems.
|>>
|>>One more thing, when I invoke gedit as user I get the message
|>>
|>>gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0: undefined
|>>symbol: xmlNewTextReaderFilename and gedit won't open.
|>>When I am logon as root, gedit start with no problem.
|>>
|>>I can start KDE desktop as the user without any error messages.
|>
|>I have also have this problem on my last upgrade but finally fixed
|>after fresh install...
|>In last, I also can't run the progams such as setting program from the
|>gnome panel even a root account was used.
|>
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Anytime I run into such problems I just remove all GNOME related "."
files/folders, restart GDM and login again .. GNOME reverts to default
settings but it really isn't that big a deal to recustomize .. ;)

Best,
- -M
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