Re: gconf craziness
Log out, go to a virtual console, and run:
killall gconfd-2
bonobo-slay
Then log back in. That fixes most upgrade-related problems with gnome.
-Rob
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 18:50 +0100, John Leach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've dist-upgraded from the i386 unstable and experimental repositories
> to get gnome 2.6 and run into a strange problem. When logging in, the
> gtk theme flicks back and forth in quick succession between the default
> and my actual settings a few times, then I get a message about gconfd
> not starting correctly (not able to spawn a child process). The Gtk
> theme then doesn't work and the all the nautilus icons are just the
> default white flip-page icon. But my background image works fine,
> along with my metacity theme and even gconf-editor seems to function
> fine.
>
> It's crazy because if run gnome-session to a remote display (via a new
> ssh login of the same account) it all works perfectly. No gconf
> complaints and no gtk theme problems.
>
> I'm having trouble pinpointing the problem using strace, but it does
> show that gconf is failing to find a particular linc-????-?-* file in
> /tmp/orbit-john whilst the flicking is occurring.
>
> I've put off reporting this since Friday just in case it was being
> caused by some out of sync packages or something. I'm still not
> convinced it isn't though.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> John.
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