Re: Sarge troubles...

[Rob Adams <rob@on-sitemanager.com>]

Do you have write permissions for all the files and directories in your
home directory?  Try chmod -R u+w ~ ~/.* then killall gconfd-2 then log
in.

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 19:13 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> 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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