Re: gnome problem after upgrade

From: Mark Guzzo (marguz_at_ameritech.net)
Date: 08/03/04

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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:30:20 -0500

    Hello,
    I too have had a HUGE problem after an auto update with yum. I too also
    logged in as root and made a new user and found everything fine.

    On a hunch, I rebooted my box and now my profile works just fine.
    So try a windows fix and reboot ;-)

    Mark

    >
    > The update went fine (used yum). A little while later I logged back
    > into check something else and received a number of error messages
    > (listed below) dealing with gnome applets and gnome itself. In addition
    > the icons on the task bar and on the desktop reverted to the old style
    > gnome icons. I suspect these are just built in defaults. Read a couple
    > of messages regarding this in the list but other than delete/move the
    > .gnome*/.gconf* stuff there was no real explanation.
    >
    > I logged in as root and everything appeared as it should with no
    > errors. I created a new user and had no problems with gnome.
    > 

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