[K12OSN] IceWM, Gnome & Nautilus FRUSTRATIONS

[Petre Scheie]

I saw similar behavior when I put up a FC3/K12ltsp 4.2 box but mounted /home from my 
RH9/K12ltsp 3.1.2 box.  Something with Gnome changed along the way, such that when I 
logged in from a terminal to the new server, Gnome would not work right.  It gave errors 
about not liking my ~/.gnome directory (or one of the ~/.gnome* cousins).  I found that 
it behaved normally if I renamed ~/.gnome to, say, ~/.gnome.old.  Then a new ~/.gnome 
directory was created the first time I logged in, and everything was fine.  But the new 
settings would probably make a mess of things if I logged into the old server.  For now, 
I've retreated to the old server, and have turned off the DHCP server on the new box so 
it doesn't boot clients.

This doesn't fix your problem, but perhaps explains what's going on so you can figure 
out a solution.

Petre

richard ingalls wrote:
> Can anyone help me get IceWM working WITH the desktop
> icons and file manager, etc.?  Can anyone help me get
> GNOME working?
> 
> I have a machine that serves the /home directories to
> the other K12LTSP servers in my building.  It is a new
> install of FC3.  When students logon in this
> particular classroom (where the /home server is)...
> everything is fine!  yeah.  BUT, when they attempt to
> logon at one of the other classrooms (each has it's
> own LTSP server and NFS mounts /home)... they can get
> IceWM (with NO icons, file manager, etc.) and they
> CAN'T get GNOME at all!  What is going on?
> 
> I'm so frustrated with FC3 right now regarding this
> situation that I'm considering going back to Red Hat
> 8.0 (3.0.0 distibution - it just worked!).  Do a
> complete reinstall on ALL my machines.  Sure FC3 looks
> great, but it has NOT made my life easier or more
> productive or very much fun.
> 
> 
> 
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