Originally Posted by
robsoles
Excellent work Pal!!! But don't worry about bundling files up for me to have a squiz at because the methodology you describe means that you will know which file(s) bork your login, when they bork it again it will be the last file(s) you put back and that identifies them as the files that really need to be reviewed.
Well looks like all is good. After a bit of finagling got everything copied back to /home/alladnsane. Nothing killed it again which is really wierd unless I missed something.
The only things I can think of are :
- I missed something when copying back to home
- ~/.pulse/ but copied the old one over (which was empty b/c of #sudo rm -R ~/.pulse).
- libsane-hpaio.so.1.0.0T and hpmudext.soT were chowned from root:root to user:user (not a likely culprit)
- made blank /etc/gdm/custom.conf
- my possible incompetence at following directions earlier in the thread and later fumbling ineptitude
I am about to start changing the above back to their original states (other than the .pulse and thing b/c never made a copy of the original)
@all ALWAYS #cp /path/to/filename /path/to/filename.saved-myself-a-lot-of-grief-by-having-a-copy-of-original BEFORE you #rm /path/to/filename
I would very much appreciate a squiz at the contents of the gpg-agent-info-alladnsane-desktop file indicated by that log.
I have attached this. I am now getting a whole bunch of new errors in ~/.xessions-errors file. Maybe I'll let you off the hook and start a new thread although I attached it anyway
Repeat: Please disregard previous request/advice to bundle up all possibly relevant config files, just show me the ones that re-break your login when you put them back
I figured as much
(Well done on spotting shortcut btw - dunno why it didn't occur to me that everything could be moved together (config and personal files) safely enough.)
Thank-you, but I don't know if safely is accurate. Yes I got it to work and everything seems ok (fingers crossed) but using #gksudo nautilus to copy other users home folder turned everything to owned by root. I fixed this by #sudo chown -R user:user ~/test-brokenness, and for some reason everything copied into the new folder but several files wouldn't copy back out to home folder with "cannot copy special file" error. These I had to move directly instead of copying back;
Code:
~/.config/gxine/socket
~/.config/xpad/server
~/.MultiGet
~/.gvfs ##this one was busy so had to move and chown from other user
Well I have reinstalled Skype and timidity via synaptic, and added the saved sessions for skype and hp-systray back into ~/gnome-sessions/saved-sesions. I also renamed the folder ~/.recently-used.xbel bc ~/.xsession-errors was complaining about not being able to write to it because it was a directory.
All seems to be working ok with no clue whatsoever as to what killed it in the first place
Thank-you very much for all your time and effort (and patience for my learning curve in console ) Would never have gotten here without your help. Unless you think otherwise I am going to mark this thread as solved. Solved in a very ugly way but nonetheless working. Hopefully when I attempt to plug my new logitech webcam in it doesn't break again
EDIT:Logitech c270 webcam works great out of the box for both audio and video. Wish I had used it in first place
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