nautilus issues

[Jason Pinkney]

> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 20:48 -0400, Jason Pinkney wrote:
>
>>Dear Linux gurus,
>>I'm having problems with my gnome desktop/nautilus.
>>I'm running Fedora core 2,  gnome-desktop-2.0.
>>
>>I had this problems before, but I can't remember the
>>solution.  Here are some symptoms:
>>1. When I reboot, my desktop comes up without my
>>     chosen background and without my desktop icons.
>>     The panels are ok.
>>2. Right-clicking on the background does nothing
>>3. Trying to run nautilus from the command line does nothing.
>>4. Logging out takes so long that I get impatient and kill X.
>>5. I've been able to get the desktop back to normal by logging
>>     in with a KDE desktop, fiddling with things, and then going
>>     back to gnome.  Also, by killing X, fiddling around with things
>>      (like killing stray nautilus commands) and then typing "startx".
>>     However, when I log out again, the dialogue does not include
>>     the check box for save the current desktop.  (How can that happen??)
>>      And completely rebooting makes it messed up again.
>>Any ideas?
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds like your ~/.gtk* files got hosed.  Replace them with copies from
>another user or take note of your home directory, UID and GID, then
>delete your account by becoming the root user and using the command:
>
>	# userdel yourloginname
>
>Do NOT use the "-r" option!  Once that's done, recreate the account
>using:
>
>	# useradd -g oldGID -u oldUID -d oldhomedirectory yourloginname
>
>That will create the account anew, but use the old UID and GID and home
>directory.  Since you didn't use the "-r" option to userdel, all the
>files in the directory will still be there.  Once that's done, reset the
>password:
>
>	# passwd yourloginname
>
>
>and the account should be OK.
>
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Thanks Rick,
that helped a lot!
My only addendum is that I had to recreate the oldGID
before I did your command

useradd -g oldGID -u oldUID -d oldhomedirectory yourloginname

otherwise it gives an error message.
thanks,
Jason