hello CentOS7 users,
I have an up-to-date Scientific Linux 7 (_very_ similar to CentOS7).
The problem is that if one user (we have central homes) logs into any machine, we only see a desktop with icons, but no window decorations or top/bottom bars ("panels") (for both gnome-classic and gnome3).
I can fix the window decorations by running "metacity --replace", but the other problem remains.
I tried to remove .gnome, .gnome2, .gconf, .metacity, .cache, .dbus, .dmrc.
I noticed that when starting "gnome-shell --replace" from a terminal, I get "Failed to migrate monitor configuration for ... Empty Configuration", and when running gnome-control-center, the option "Displays" shows "Could not get screen information" and the console shows: 'Name "org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig" does not exist'.
This happens both when logging in physically and when logging in virtually using VNC.
How can I fix this? Do I need to reset more of GNOME's config?
Many Thanks and Best Regards! Felix
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 08:07:10PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
hello CentOS7 users,
I have an up-to-date Scientific Linux 7 (_very_ similar to CentOS7).
The problem is that if one user (we have central homes) logs into any machine, we only see a desktop with icons, but no window decorations or top/bottom bars ("panels") (for both gnome-classic and gnome3).
When you say you have "central homes", does that mean they're a network filesystem? What kind of filesystem? If it's NFS, do you have the use_nfs_home_dirs SELinux boolean enabled?
Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org writes:
hello Jonathan,
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 08:07:10PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
hello CentOS7 users,
I have an up-to-date Scientific Linux 7 (_very_ similar to CentOS7).
The problem is that if one user (we have central homes) logs into any machine, we only see a desktop with icons, but no window decorations or top/bottom bars ("panels") (for both gnome-classic and gnome3).
When you say you have "central homes", does that mean they're a network filesystem? What kind of filesystem? If it's NFS, do you have the use_nfs_home_dirs SELinux boolean enabled?
Thank you for your answer.
The NFS was mounted fine, it was some GUI configuration that was broken. We resolved the problem by creating a new home, and copying over the user data (not the configuration).
Cheers and Best Regards,
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Felix Natter -
Jonathan Billings