I'm getting this error right after logging in:

"An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome_segv. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly"

There is another window open behind it, but it does not allow me to bring it forward. I also can't click on the "OK" to close the error message window.

Before this happened, I deleted a few users from passwd using vipw and made a change to xorg.conf to try to get my scroll wheel working and then rebooted. Please help. Thanks.

Daniel.

if you edit xorg.conf there's no need to reboot, only restart X (like switch to some console terminal and killall the x-stuff you're using like gdm, kdm and so on and then re-running startx or equivalent).

you could first look through your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what's going wrong..if there's something. then try to create a new user and log into Gnome as him to see if that helps (is it global problem for all the users or just for the one?) and so on..

Hi,

I have experienced a very similar problem today after changing a user's user id and group id. The user logged on and received exactly the same message that you saw. So I took a look at \var\log\messages and found gnome complaining about permission for tmp\gconfd_<username>. Indeed, the file permission was set to the obsolete user and obsolete group. I changed these to the new user and group ids. Problem solved and the user can log on as normal.

Hope this help.

Cheers,

Shirley

Thanks. I was logging on as root when it happened. I actually gave up and reinstalled Linux, so it's all clean again. But for future reference, what is the correct way to remove a user?

Try man userdel,hope this helps;

Need help fixing gnome ( post #1)

I'm got this error right after logging in:

"An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome_segv. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly"

There is another window open behind it, but it does not allow me to bring it forward. I also can't click on the "OK" to close the error message window.

I haven't a clue what I was doing to cause this. I know I did and was using Firefox and Thunderbird.

So I uninstalled GNOME using Apt and reinstalled GNOME but it doesn't come up on the list of Desktops.

I got this error when I ran gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome:
Failure listing entries in `/desktop/gnome': Failed to contact configuration ser ver; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBi t, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/p rojects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-sonia/lock/ ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IO R file '/tmp/gconfd-sonia/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

Thanks..from another Newbie

I tried using KDE but I didn't find it to user friendly

Look under /tmp/gconf-<yourname>/lock what do you see?

Thanks for the replies but I ended up installing Fedora back on my computer and have no problems...yet I think there were 2 users in my computer at the time I lost GNOME. The other users is not allowd in my computer.

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