(warty) gnome-panel crash on login

[toyfactory]

Panic over!  Removing my old .metacity folder and the sessions subfolder
(filled with cryptic session ids - what are they?) allowed me to log in
again without gnome-panel crashing on startup.  And the folder whose
contents I thought had vanished?  Ctrl-H  It seems cursing Gnome reduced
the blood flow to the important part of my brain marked 'thinking'.

Cheers,

Nick

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:21:30 +0900, "toyfactory" <toyfactory at xsmail.com>
said:
> Well, I tried uninstalling completely and then reinstalling gnome-panel,
> gnome-panel-data, gnome-applets and gnome-applets data without success.
> 
> After some fiddling around I managed to create a new user and login
> successfully, I then tried to backup my existing gnome config files and
> copy the fresh config files from the new user.  After more fiddling to
> get the groups and permissions right I restarted gnome and logged in as
> the old user.  Same problem, but now I discover the folder I put my
> backup config files in is, you guessed it, completely empty!  So I'm
> back to square one, minus all my config files.  Well, maybe I didn't
> need them anyway...
> 
> The rate this is going I'll end up having to reinstall the whole damn
> system just because gnome decided to throw a hissy fit for no apparent
> reason.  Which conveniently brings me to my next question (see another
> post).
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:15:23 +0900, "toyfactory" <toyfactory at xsmail.com>
> said:
> > Just now Gnome-panel crashed, and kept crashing.  I hit Ctrl-Alt-
> > Backspace and tried to log in again, same problem.  I hit Ctrl-Alt-
> > Backspace and restarted, same problem when I try to log back in.
> > 
> > I don't know what I did to cause this problem, other than successfully
> > installing the xchm file viewer using Synaptic, and unsuccessfully
> > attempting to copy a Firefox Internet shortcut from the desktop to a
> > mounted vfat drive. Gnome is now unusable so for the time being it's
> > back to Windows (which incidentally feels a good deal more responsive
> > than Gnome).
> > 
> > I've tried to remove and reinstall gnome-panel using the 'safe-mode'
> > login but it hasn't solved the problem.  Is there anything else I should
> > try to reinstall or are there any configuration files that might have
> > gotten mangled?
> > 
> > Thanks again for your help,
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
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