On Saturday August 05 2006 9:04 am, Claude Jones wrote: > > What error did you get? > > # gnome-default-applications-properties > > (control-center:19530): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_get_string: > assertion `value != NULL' failed > > Earlier, I had gotten this: > > # gnome-default-applications-properties > > (control-center:10517): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_get_string: > assertion `value != NULL' failed > /usr/libexec/control-center: No such file or directory. > > I looked, and sure enough, there was no 'control-center' - I checked and > pirut showed that it was installed, so I removed it, and reinstalled, and > that's when I got the first error I listed above. The reinstallation did > not result in 'control-center' appearing in /usr/libexec by the > way...That's as far as I got with it. Just looked at my system logs, and found a bunch of these: Aug 5 08:58:26 tehogee gconfd (root-19559): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to get a lock: couldn't create directory `/tmp/gconfd-root/lock': Permission denied -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA