nautilus issues

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:54 -0400, Jason Pinkney wrote:
> > 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.

DOH!  Yeah, I forgot that.  deluser will delete the GID if only one user
is using it.

Well, I never said I was perfect (or even reasonably intelligent!) :-)
Glad you got it sorted out.
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