Re: Sarge troubles...

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 14:25, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 17:43, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I took the sarge plunge a couple of weeks ago for my laptop, and am
> > having a few problems, which will keep me from upgrading my group until
> > they're resolved (but I guess that's what testing is for :-).
> > 
> > The main thing is that nothing seems to be saved when I log out.  I can
> > delete panels, add applets, etc., and when I log out and back in,
> > everything is back to the defaults. 
> 
> Is Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Tab Session
> Options -> Automatically save changes set to OFF and Prompt on logout
> set to OFF too?

Yes, set to OFF.  Just turned it on.  No difference, still nothing is
saved -- including that preference: when I log out and back in, it's
turned off again. :-(

Is there some other "Don't save gconf preferences on logout" option,
perhaps for testing purposes, which I might have inadvertently enabled
by blowing away .gnome2 earlier?  I can't find such a thing...  Oh wait,
what's this empty "debian-upgrade-failed" file?  The debian-upgrade.log
doesn't seem to show an explicit failure that I can tell...

Well, I'm going to shift /home/username to /home/username.old, and copy
only program data back to /home/username to "restart" the GNOME 2
setup.  I'll keep around username.old for "forensic" purposes if there
are any suggestions on how to dissect it, but if nobody bites, I'll just
abandon and eventually remove it.

Thanks,
-- 
-Adam P.

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