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

[Ed M. <edm...@ma...>]

well i whipped  /tmp and check my home folder for any files with bad  
perms an still no go

maybe a pic of the gnome-sessions program will help...

http://server.antiwindows.gotdns.com:8080/~edman007/Screenshot- 
Sessions.png


On Jul 16, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Don Tanner wrote:

> 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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