oh, please, please help me with my GNOME failure

chriskwan

oh dear. where shall I begin.

To access the files on my other partitions, i need to have a UID of 501. So, i usermod -u 501 myself. and then gnome FREAKS OUT. something about gconf, but i could only read it the first time. i've unmerged everything possible, that begins with gnome- or dependds on gnome or is depended on by gnome, and then when i remerge gnome-2.2.1, the same effing thing happens. what do I need to do; i just want my old GNOME back. (actually before the fuckage, i was using 2.3.2 from breakmygentoo).

i'm on a ppc, if that helps.
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beesea · Apprentice Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

did you change ownership of all your files in your home directory to your new id? i think that should fix things

chriskwan · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 5:01 am Post subject:

i created an entire new user. i havent changed any permissions, because there are no files i copied. but, it's not just failing for my new user, it's failing for all users, including root
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sisob · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 7:40 am Post subject:

Have you tried removing the new user?
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chriskwan · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 1:41 pm Post subject:

i have not, why would that help?
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sisob · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 4:21 pm Post subject:

well logic dictates if it caused the problem removing it might help
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chriskwan · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject:

no, what caused the problem was changing my original user's UID to 501. As soon as I did that, GNOME stopped working for that user; but worked for root user. So, I assumed that it was a gconf issue or something of that nature, and then deleted the original user and created a new user with UID 501. After starting GNOME with that, GNOME totally broke and now it works for no user.

However, GNOME applications work under alternate environments, like fluxbox.
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

have you tried removing all your gnome configuration stuff?

chriskwan · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 1:13 am Post subject:

i tried it with my original user (when root user's GNOME still worked) to no avail.

then with my new user, i've done it, again to no avail.
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dtessier · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 5:35 am Post subject:

You might want to try

chriskwan · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 1:53 pm Post subject:

i'll do that; but I still don't see how that would fix GNOME (as the root user's environment is all fucky as well.)
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