GNOME is not saving my settings.

David A. Cobb superbiskit at cox.net
Mon Feb 20 23:10:41 UTC 2006


Interesting.  However, I haven't set up any NFS connections.

Dan Kegel wrote:
> This is a common problem here; it happens whenever NFS locking
> gets hosed.
>
> On 2/17/06, David A. Cobb <superbiskit at cox.net> wrote:
>   
>>  Running Hoary, kernel-2.6.10-5-386, Gnome 2.10.0
>>
>>  A recent problem resulted in Gnome-Session hanging up after loading
>> Nautilus.  Errors indicated "could not connect to gconf server."  Not having
>> any better idea, I removed the ".gconf" and ".gnome2" and ".nautilus"
>> directories, forcing Gnome (I thought) to recreate things as though this was
>> my first login.
>>
>>  That worked -- I could now complete the login, and I could rebuild my
>> desktop the way I wanted it.
>>  HOWEVER, now Gnome doesn't save and restore my settings.  Every restart is
>> from scratch.
>>
>>  Could someone please suggest where I should look for this problem?
>>
>>  TIA
>>  --
>> David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
>> "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The
>> Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
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-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Free at last!  Free at last!  Using Linux, I'm FREE at last!
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!



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