Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:36:25PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:31:46AM +0100, Anim Asante wrote:
> > This has worked for me before when I ran into similar problems.
> > There is a file in your home directory called .xsession_error or
> > something like that. If your delete it, log off and back on again it
> > may fix your problem. Like I indicated, it works for me.
>
> Sadly no, I neglected to say that I could not get things to work even
> using a test account and doing an rm -rf .* in $HOME.
Just in case other people try this, 'rm -rf .*' is VERY DANGEROUS. '.*'
expands to include '.' and '..', and if you happen to have privileges to
write to the parent directory then you'll end up removing all
directories *next* to your current directory as well!
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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