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shoutstudios
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Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: Lost all settings for gnome-panel |
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I upgraded to Gnome 2.8 running metacity today, and all seemed to go well, but when I logged in to Gnome (after restarting), I noticed that my gnome-panel menus were completely blank. I have no menus, no applets and I can't right click on the panel to add anything.
I have tried removing all of the .gnome*, .metacity, and .gconf* folders and files and this still did not work. Just as a test, I created a new user and everything worked fine for that user. I have also tried killing off gnome-panel and even re-emerging it, and nothing seems to fix this.
I did notice that on my logging console, I do get these errors when I log into my X session.
Nov 2 23:16:48 proteus (doug-8413): Failed to sync one or more sources: Failed to write some configuration data to disk
Nov 2 23:17:49 proteus (doug-8413): Failed to write "/home/doug/.gconf/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/window_list/prefs/%gconf.xml": Failed to open "/home/doug/.gconf/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/window_list/prefs/%gconf.xml.new": No such file or directory
Nov 2 23:17:49 proteus (doug-8413): Failed to write "/home/doug/.gconf/apps/nautilus/%gconf.xml": Failed to open "/home/doug/.gconf/apps/nautilus/%gconf.xml.new": No such file or directory
Nov 2 23:17:49 proteus (doug-8413): Failed to write "/home/doug/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb.sysbackup/%gconf.xml": Failed to open "/home/doug/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb.sysbackup/%gconf.xml.new": No such file or directory
Nov 2 23:17:49 proteus (doug-8413): Failed to write "/home/doug/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml": Failed to open "/home/doug/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml.new": No such file or directory
Nov 2 23:17:49 proteus (doug-8413): Failed to sync one or more sources: Failed to write some configuration data to disk
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ice_cool
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Joined: 13 Aug 2002
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| I have the same problem. I did an and now my gnome-panel doesn't work. |
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psyeye
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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After installing Gnome 2.8, I zapped my whole Gnome-configuration, too, but different. Since your error messages sound to me as if your gconf-daemon is still trying to write some files for you, something must have gone wrong...
In my case, I did:
- logout
- switch to vt1 (ctrl+alt+f1)
- login as root
- take down gdm (/etc/init.d/xdm stop)
(- you might like to make sure no gconfd-2 is running anymore)
- as user: remove all you .g*-dirs in your home (rm -rf .gc* .gno* .gt*)
- as root, start xdm (/etc/init.d/xdm start)
- did it help? 
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shoutstudios
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:38 pm Post subject: fixed but not solved |
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| I ended up moving my home directory and creating a new one, logging in to gnome with that one and now everything works fine. It's a hack, but it worked, I just had to set everything back up and move all of my files to my new home directory. Oh-well. |
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psyeye
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: fixed but not solved |
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| shoutstudios wrote: | | I ended up moving my home directory and creating a new one, logging in to gnome with that one and now everything works fine. It's a hack, but it worked, I just had to set everything back up and move all of my files to my new home directory. Oh-well. |
And I thought I was using a sledge-hammer-method...
But to make it work, all means are welcome! 
psyeye |
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ice_cool
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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I figured out what made the panel freez.
For me it was a keyboard indicator applet.
| Code: | | killall /usr/libexec/gnome-keyboard-applet |
did the trick.
My panel is working now. |
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heedless
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Joined: 26 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:36 am Post subject: Keyboard Indicator Applet Freezing |
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I'm having the same problem :\
First, I can't get the "gnome-keyboard-properties" to load.
whenever i start it, it just says:
| Quote: | user1@lps_1 ~ $ gnome-keyboard-properties
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7473aa0 ***
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and hangs.
Whenever I add the "keyboard Indicator" applet to the panel,
the panel freezes. I need to remove the applet entry
from the panel configuration section using gconf-editor
and then to kill the gnome-panel process, for it to be usable again.
Very annoying.
I would prefer not to delete all my gnome settings (rm -Rf ~/.g*)... |
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