Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:29:25
Message-Id: 200903242129.18615.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] by Michael Sullivan
1 On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
4 wrote:
5 > > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use
6 > > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth
7 > > > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs
8 > > > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directories
9 > > > in /home over to it, then unmounted it, mounted it on /home and logged
10 > > > in. Now almost every time I do anything I get a notice saying that
11 > > > gnome-settings-daemon has crashed. I don't even kwow if it will let me
12 > > > send this email, but I've attached the bug report. Please somebody
13 > > > help me!
14 > >
15 > > May just be a coincidence. I'm seeing this on my wife's machine after
16 > > an update to Gnome-2.24.x from 2.22.x. No changes in disk drives here.
17 > >
18 > > If you're not against starting from a new desktop then try making a
19 > > new user and seeing if that new user has the same problem. If it
20 > > doesn't then try erasing (or moving) all the .gnome directories and
21 > > possibly you'll be able to clean it up that way.
22 > >
23 > > Possibly a case of something being marked stable when possibly it
24 > > shouldn't have been?
25 > >
26 > > Good luck,
27 > > Mark
28 >
29 > Does anyone know where files for gnome-settings-daemon are stored? Is
30 > there something in /tmp I need to take care of?
31
32 /tmp is cleaned by default every boot. Except you turned that off.