I cannot rename the directory from the Recovery/Root prompt, says it is a read-only file system. What now? On 07/04/2012 12:43 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > I've had ill effects occur in kde and gnome like this forcing me to > basically rename the ~/.gnome2* directors as well as ~/.kde to > rebuild/fix odd desktop issues. The profiles were sometimes glitchy > due to laptop hard shutdowns forcing me to recreate new, but haven't > had that issue in a long while with ext4 (always suspected it was a > weird reiserfs artifact). > > Upgrades in ubuntu more often then not hose my systems desktop-wise as > they extend/change dbus and gconf schemas, and upgrades don't seem to > always catch usage throughout the desktop config files. I'm sure kde > is similar. Try a new user profile and work back from there, renaming > it from a root shell and/or create a new user. > > -mb > > > On 07/03/2012 11:57 AM, Wayne Davis wrote: >> A friends system had an update yesterday. Today, when you boot it up, >> the is a blue screen with a couple of folders that WERE on the desktop >> before. BUT,it says its unable to load the system tray now. >> >> I did have him boot into recovery mode run DPKG's fix mode, which only >> removed 1 obsolete file. Still the same results. >> >> Any Ideas? >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss