Re: Re: Gnome 2.14 crashes in Etch after upgrade
I noticed the message below on the list, and have the same problem. I
manually restored parts of my .gconf directory, noting which things
cause the crash. It was a time consuming task, the biggest nuisance is
having to reboot after every crash. I have reduced it to:
~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/
font_rendering contanis one %gconf.xml file
peripherals contains an empty %gconf.xml file, and a keyboard and mouse
direcory, the former with 4 more subdirectories and a %gconf.xml, the
latter with only a %gconf.xml
I can't remember trying to restore only subdirectories within the
peripherals directory, might have worked, but it was getting too
cumbersome. font_rendering's %gconf.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="antialiasing" mtime="1110789486" muser="hugo"
type="string">
<stringvalue>grayscale</stringvalue>
</entry>
<entry name="hinting" mtime="1110789486" muser="hugo" type="string">
<stringvalue>medium</stringvalue>
</entry>
</gconf>
One of these two entries must crash Gnome then?
Am I correct if I assume %gconf-tree.xml is just a flat-file version of
the directory structure, meaning it's only font_rendering and something
in peripherals that caused problems, on my machine?
Pity no release critical bug was filed before this filtered through to
testing. Don't want to deal with these issues this year... ;)
Hugo
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:08:06PM +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
I dist-upgraded Etch (Testing) today. Attempting to open a Gnome session
caused Gnome to abort and made other virtual terminals unusable (they
all had a screen with a coloured pattern and no prompt or text). This
was true for any existing user with a gnome configuration. Newly-created
users did not have this problem.
I can solve the problem by deleting each user's ~/.gconf file (mv .gconf
.gconf.old). Each user must then login and rebuild their preferences (eg
theme, panel applets etc) from scratch. Is there an easier way?
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