Re: Sarge troubles...

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

Yup, had write permissions everywhere, this didn't help.

Hmm, I had .gconf and .gconfd as symlinks, could that have mattered?

D'oh!  That's it.  I had rsynced the dir where the .gconf and .gconfd
symlinks point from a place where I had GNOME 1.4 installed.  So the 1.4
stuff overwrote the 2.4 stuff.  That could have done untold damage, such
that this "no save on logout" behavior is very understandable.

Okay, that problem is resolved.  Sorry to bug you all with it!

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 19:28, Rob Adams wrote:
> 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.
-- 
-Adam P.

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