Re: [Gware-users] gnome-panel likes to try and start twice

[Don T. <dt...@gw...>]

Hello Ed,

Clear out OR chown any files/directories with your user name
that you are running gnome under making sure that these
files/directories are owned by that user.
You will need to shutdown gnome before doing this.

ie: the user you run gnome as in the file/directory name
    in /tmp/ is what you are looking for.

I have run across this several times after an upgrade 
and root had become the owner of the /tmp/file.directories
and they should be owned by the user you run gnome as,
recursively of course.
Look for .files/directories also.
Find these files/directories in /tmp/
(mine will have "dtanner" in the file.directory name 
 because that is the user I run gnome as)
and you need to replace "dtanner" in these files I am listing with the
user that is running gnome for my setup. (my user I run gnome as)

Here is a list of the files/directories I had to change the ownership
back to my that user that I run gnome under...

-----
/tmp/gconfd-dtanner/
/tmp/orbit-dtanner/
/tmp/orbit-dtanner-2828a868/ <- the numbers will be different for you.
/tmp/orbit-dtanner-a86808b8/ <- the numbers will be different for you.
-----
ie: /tmp/gconfd-dtanner/ will be
named /tmp/gconfd-YOUR-USER-THAT-RUNS-GNOME/
and the same for all the directories I listed above
as far as replacing "dtanner" with "your-user-that-runs-gnome"
in the directory names.

1)	The first thing I would try would be to shutdown
	gnome completely. 

2)	cd /tmp 

3)	Run this command please:

 "chown -R your-gnome-user.users gconfd-[your-user-that-runs-gnome]"

	Do the same for all the directories/files that contain your
	user name that runs gnome that may be owned by root.root

	The files or directories that contain your-user-that-runs-gnome
	in the file or directory NAME should be all be owned by 
	the user that runs gnome and not root. chown all these 
	that you find in /tmp/

5)	Look for any files or directories that contain
	"your-user-that-runs-gnome" in the filename
	or more than likely directory names and perform the
	"chown -R your-gnome-user.users foo"

6)	Restart Gnome.

7)	If all else fails then get ready to reboot.
	Clean out /tmp/* completely and reboot.

This should fix your problem.
Let me know how it works out Ed.

Thanks,
Don

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 06:42 -0400, Ed Martin wrote:
> ever since upgrading to gware 2.10.2 i have had problems with 
> gnome-panel starting twice on login, gnome-panel detects this and gives 
> an annoying little popup saying that the second one isn't going to 
> start if there is already one running, which is good, but i still get 
> the stupid popup every time i login
> 
> i  think it has something to do with gnome-sessions thing, when i look 
> at that it seems to add gnome-panel in there once for the running 
> process and then it looks like something forces an extra gnome-panel 
> with come config stuff in the (as it has "gnome-panel 
> --sm-config-prefix blah blah" and a non default order, one has 50 the 
> other has 40)
> 
> is there anything to do to get that stupid popup to go away, its very 
> annoying? it weird that gnome-panel is trying to start twice and i cant 
> stop it. I want to stop it

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