gnome desktop is *still* unusable after rawhide update.

[Mike]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:06, Elton Woo wrote:
> >>On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:09:05PM -0400, Elton Woo wrote:
> >> How do I capture error dialogs in Nautilus?
> >> I've recently updated from rawhide, and when I login, I get error
> >> messages to the effect that gnome settings cannot be saved,
> >> because  ****** .... etc.
> >> 
> >> I have to logout of Gnome via CTRL-ALT-DEL.
> >> 
> >> KDE is working fine, and it's from *this* desktop that I'm sending 
> >> this message.
> >> 
> 
> >Maybe gconf-sanity-check-2 has more info if you try running it. 
> >Run it with DISPLAY= so there's no X connection and it prints to 
> t>he command line.
> 
> >You could also strace -o /tmp/output -f gconf-sanity-check-2 to 
> >see what goes wrong.
> 
> Can you guve me some dummy-leve instructions on how to
> do this? Essentially, I can now *read* the text in the error dialogs, 
> but since I have neither desktop icons, nor the panel, I can't 
> (read: don't know how to) access a console prompt. TKseti and
> licq load, because they are in my startup sessions...
> 
> Other than that, I would have to read each error message and
> write them down on paper, then login to KDE to post further info
> on this. N.B. The nVidia drivers are now installed, and I have almost
> all updates from rawhide installed. At the very least, the important
> ones like glibc, gnome-panel, and nautilus are installed....
> 

have you tried with a clean dummy user account?
> Thanks,
> 
> Elton