X session messed up after upgrading to fc6. How to reset Gnome.

[Monkey Pet]

I checked the permissions and it seems okay.  I am wondering what files to
delete remove, so I can cause gnome to just recreate *everything* for that
user's session.

On 10/28/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Monkey Pet wrote:
> > Hi,  I just reinstalled fc6 (over fc5).  The installation went well.
> > However, when I copied my old home directory over, everything went
> > haywire.  Now, when I login to the X session via gdm, I get just a
> > cursor, nothing else, no icons, no menus, nothing.
> >
> > I want to keep my old home directory, but want to force it to regenerate
> > whatever is needed for gnome... how do I do this?  What files do I
> > delete or copy??  thanks.
> >
> >
>
> The permissions for the users are probably different than they were for
> your previous install. If this is the case, you would have to chmod
> recursively for each user home directory so the proper user once again
> owns the files.
>
> If you actually copied all of the files in your old /home over to your
> new /home, maybe everything is owned by root. How did you transfer the
> files over?
>
> Hopefully you only added user-a, user-b, user-c for the first
> installation and created users in a different order for the new system.
> If this is the case, user-b might own user-a files and visa versa.
>
> you can either delete and add the users back as originally or
> recursively change the owner for their respective directories.
>
> You would probably need to do this in runlevel 3 as root.
>
> Jim
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