Nat Gross wrote:
Upon logging in, I get errors relating to gnome-panel, and it gives me the option to close or restart. Either way, the problem cycles again, and the few buttons on the panel do not work. I can't even logout via c-a-d, it just hangs. I have to hit the switch which forces an immediate shutdown. Under Root, I CAN use Gnome, but with my regular login I am forced to use kde in order to work.
This happened after a 'yum -y update'. The kernel was already the latest prior to the recent yum update:2.6.11-1.14. FC3.
How do I fix this? I can ssh into this box at the moment.
Thank you all.
-nat
The following steps provide one way to set a user's home environment back to defaults. In the example below, replace username with the login id of the user you wish to reset the desktop defaults. NOTE: This will replace all of the user settings with defaults, including setting made in things like mozilla, bash and similar programs..
1. Backup the users home directory.
# mv /home/username /home/username.bak
2. Add a test user to the system.
# useradd test
3. Move the user's home directory to the old user's home.
# mv /home/test /home/username
4. Clean up the test account.
# userdel test
5. Copy any files the user still needs into the new home directory.
# cp /home/username.bak/somefilename /home/username/
6. Change the ownership of user's new directory so that the user owns
all files in their home directory.# chown -R username.username /home/username
7. Test this set-up by logging into the graphics as this user.
regards Rahul
