On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:04:17 -0800 > Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> dijo: > > >On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:32:30PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I did, but the results were inconclusive. > >> > >> The results of diff are hard to read and understand. Finally, I just did > diff > >> --brief and figured I would look at the files in Gedit or something > myself > >> manually. Even that didn't help. And sometimes diff lied. For example, > it > >> said two small text files were different, but when I opened them in > Gedit and > >> compared them line by line they were identical, at least as to content. > > > >As Tony pointed out diff pays attention to whitespace - in some cases that > is > >very relevant. > > > >Consider using context diff, the -c option, to be presented with the most > >human readable diff output. > > Thanks for all the suggestions. I finally nailed it. > > The ~/.local-original/share/applications folder for the new user had only > two > files. My ~/local/share/applications folder has many entries. I don't know > what > they do. Some appear to be part of the Applications menu, but others > clearly > are not. And I also have launchers in Applications that are not reflected > in a > file in this folder. > > However, I was especially interested in a file called metacity.desktop. I > noted > that the new user's original folder did not contain this file. I tried to > rename it, but Nautilus would not let me. I certainly own the file and have > rw > permissions for it, but Nautilus just wouldn't let me. No matter, as root > from > the command line I renamed it metacity.desktop.old. Then I rebooted. And > after > logging in metacity launched as it is supposed to. Everything else seems to > be > working normally. > > I have no idea what rogue process created this file. > > It is a text file that can be opened with Gedit. Looking at the contents I > see > nothing that says "don't launch metacity for this user." > > If any of the Gnome users on this list have such a file, it would be > interesting to compare notes. I feel an obligation to file a bug report, > but I > in order to make the bug report useful I need to figure out what is the > purpose > of the file, what created it, and where it went wrong. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > If it were me, I would create a script to notify me via email and text message as soon as the file is created. that should give a hint as to what's creating it, as I can think "what happened in the last 5 minutes?" I would put it in crontab and have it run once a minute. -wes -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
