What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

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JeepNut
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by JeepNut » 2019/07/24 01:52:10

chemal wrote:
2019/07/13 01:19:49
Suggestions:
1) System Settings -> Desktop Effects -> Advanced: Try other choices for Compositing type.
2) Create an additional clean account to test your preferences theory.
Well the struggle continues. Trying other Compositing types didn't help.
So tried to add a new user to test that theory and failing at that as well.
I created a new user called Brutus... but then...

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[root@machine User]# passwd Brutus
Changing password for user Brutus.
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
So looking at the SE Troubleshooter it says:
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/passwd from create access on the file nshadow.

***** Plugin catchall_labels (83.8 confidence) suggests *******************

If you want to allow passwd to have create access on the nshadow file
Then you need to change the label on nshadow
Do
# semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE 'nshadow'
where FILE_TYPE is one of the following: faillog_t, krb5_host_rcache_t, lastlog_t, passwd_file_t, shadow_t, user_tmp_t.
Then execute:
restorecon -v 'nshadow'
So I tried that with no success. But I'm just guessing at the FILE_TYPE I should be using. Assumed it would have to do with passwd.

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[root@machine User]# # semanage fcontext -a -t passwd_file_t 'nshadow'
[root@machine User]# restorecon -v 'nshadow'
restorecon:  lstat(nshadow) failed:  No such file or directory
Am I missing a file?

JeepNut
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by JeepNut » 2019/07/24 01:54:15

TrevorH wrote:
2019/07/13 01:23:27
Have you by any chance customised the theme you use? In an earlier update lots of weird stuff happened to my display and I had to select the original theme that I had customised then re-apply my changes to that and save it.
I have tried various themes and resetting defaults, uninstalling all but the basic themes, etc.
Nothing seems to be resolving this.
Seems so silly since the laptop looks fine with the same software load.

JeepNut
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by JeepNut » 2019/07/26 01:05:42

chemal wrote:
2019/07/13 01:19:49
Suggestions:
2) Create an additional clean account to test your preferences theory.
YES! A new user behaves nicely in both LibreOffice and for Firefox...
So isn't it then back to the original question... It seems to me that in the openSuSE world maybe it was a hidden kde configuration file...
Can someone advise what file would hold the user preferences in the .kde folder tree?
Maybe I can find something in one of my old logs for an opensuse build...

JeepNut
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by JeepNut » 2019/07/26 01:22:38

working in m /home path, I moved .kde to .kde.old and logged out/in.... no help. sigh.

I know better than to just move .mozilla that would wipe out all history etc, etc.
Anyone know a specific file to kill to force a re-/default config?
I see something in .config/libreoffice... but I don't know what to mess with.

aks
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by aks » 2019/07/26 02:54:19

Why not use firefox's profiles to test things out? Create a new profile and test the things you want to test. You can switch between the profiles (and set a default profile too). You could copy files between the two profiles if needed (like say stored passwords etc).
Start here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pr ... x-profiles

JeepNut
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by JeepNut » 2019/07/27 01:33:36

aks wrote:
2019/07/26 02:54:19
Why not use firefox's profiles to test things out? Create a new profile and test the things you want to test. You can switch between the profiles (and set a default profile too). You could copy files between the two profiles if needed (like say stored passwords etc).
Start here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pr ... x-profiles
Seemed a plausible idea. But I've both "restored firefox" and then created a new profile.
Neither action has helped.
And of course it wouldn't address LibreOffice also being wonky. But was worth a try.

JeepNut
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by JeepNut » 2019/07/27 01:36:03

So if I log in as my "test user" then wipe out my good user account while logged in as test user....
Then reboot and login again as test user and REcreate my "good" user name as a new user ....
Am I getting ready to brick this thing?
lol

JeepNut
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Re: What file to wipe out user "preferences"?

Post by JeepNut » 2019/08/08 03:17:57

Can't really mark it solved as no answer was found as to what file(s) could be removed/forced to rebuild.
But I had to move on, so backed up generic stuff, and abandoned all the users hidden files.
Deleted the user, rebooted, created a bogus user to test with, all looked good, so rebuilt the user name I wanted to keep using.
Then moved all the files back and reinstalled fun stuff like Evolution that have configs/files in the .hidden realm of the user.
I do appreciate the help along the way. Learning occurred, so it's a win.

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