[gentoo-user] Small Gnome 2.14 frustrations

[gentoo-user] Small Gnome 2.14 frustrations

[Mark Knecht]

Hello,
   Since upgrading to Gnome-2.14 I've run into some small frustrations:

1) In the Desktop menu on the taskbar there is now a 'Shutdown' entry.
We do not want to shutdown from anyone's account since this machine is
also our MythTV backend server and we don't want to make a mistake and
take it offline. Can this be removed somehow?

2) For all login accounts every other login fails from the GDM login
screen with a message something like this:

<QUOTE>
GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean that
you are out of diskspace or that your account could not be opened for
writing. In any case you cannot login. Please contact your
administrator.
</QOUTE>

I Googled around a bit and found other people who had a similar
problem and the same message. It seemed that for them that the answer
was to change permissions on /tmp. However I tried that and it didn't
work for me:

chown root:root /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp

3) In my account only when I try to empty the Gnome trashcan I get a
message like this:

<QUOTE>
Error while deleting.

"/home/mark/...tled folder" cannot be deleted because you do not have
permissions to modify its parent folder.
</QUOTE>

Even with this message if I am in the trash can in Nautilus and look
at the files they are deleted before the message comes up.

I've checked the permissions on .Trash. They appear correct and there
are no hidden files that have the wrong permissions.

mark@dragonfly ~ $ ls -alR .Trash/
.Trash/:
total 8
drwx------  2 mark users 4096 Jul 22 11:00 .
drwx------ 65 mark users 4096 Jul 22 10:57 ..
mark@dragonfly ~ $

   Any ideas about how to address each of these are appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] Small Gnome 2.14 frustrations

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 11:05 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>   Since upgrading to Gnome-2.14 I've run into some small frustrations:

Just Upgraded today.
> 
> 1) In the Desktop menu on the taskbar there is now a 'Shutdown' entry.
> We do not want to shutdown from anyone's account since this machine is
> also our MythTV backend server and we don't want to make a mistake and
> take it offline. Can this be removed somehow?
> 
> 2) For all login accounts every other login fails from the GDM login
> screen with a message something like this:
> 
No Issues with this. What you can do is log out, log into console as
root/some other user.
kill all user processes, and delete all files in /tmp which remotely
resembles your username.
(there may be old user processes/data there)

> 3) In my account only when I try to empty the Gnome trashcan I get a
> message like this:
> 
not sure what's happening.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Small Gnome 2.14 frustrations

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/22/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 11:05 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >   Since upgrading to Gnome-2.14 I've run into some small frustrations:
>
> Just Upgraded today.
> >
> > 1) In the Desktop menu on the taskbar there is now a 'Shutdown' entry.
> > We do not want to shutdown from anyone's account since this machine is
> > also our MythTV backend server and we don't want to make a mistake and
> > take it offline. Can this be removed somehow?
> >
> > 2) For all login accounts every other login fails from the GDM login
> > screen with a message something like this:
> >
> No Issues with this. What you can do is log out, log into console as
> root/some other user.
> kill all user processes, and delete all files in /tmp which remotely
> resembles your username.
> (there may be old user processes/data there)

Yes, I tried that yesterday when I did the chown commands I showed
earlier. No help unfortunately.

Thanks!
>
> > 3) In my account only when I try to empty the Gnome trashcan I get a
> > message like this:
> >
> not sure what's happening.
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> Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>
>
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>
>
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