Re: gconfd/gnome-panel problem



On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:41 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> Hi gnomers.
> 
> I have a problem with gnome-panel, it hangs on startup 'cause some
> applet misbehaviour, so I've tried naively to delete every file in

any error message ?

> ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome2 that seemed to be related with
> gnome-panel.  But even after deleting all these files, I still get my
> gnome-panel hanging, while all gnome-panel entries
> (/apps/panel/applets) still appear in gconf-editor. The same happened
> after removing the ~/.gconfd/saved_state before to launch the X
> session.

under .gconf/apps/panel . Delete from console ( and not gnome session )

> 
> Does anyone know how to restore gnome-panel to a fresh-installed state?
> The following method:
> 
> * killall gnome-panel
> * rm $HOME/.gnome/panel
> * gnome-panel & 
> 
> simply doesn't work. gnome-panel configuration are stored persistently
> in the gconfd archive, so I think maybe I should tweak with gconf-tool
> but I don't know where should I start from.
> 
> The drastic solution would be to delete recursively the whole
> ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gconf dirs, but I don't want to lose all other
> applications configuration, and even in this case I'm not sure it
> would work.
> 
> I'm using a Debian unstable with gnome 2.14.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
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