Gnome killed after power outage

While using Gnome, the power to my apartment blinked out. I don't have a UPS, so this caused my computer to shut down.
Upon restarting, all of Gnome's default icons were replaced with the little paper, all of my Applications menu was gone, and only a few options remained on my other menus. I tried running as a different user, and this gave no luck, so it's not configuration. I've tried removing and reinstalling Gnome via Pacman with pacman -R gnome and pacman -S gnome, I've tried replacing the icons by hand. None of this has been successful. I've run fsck.
I've had this happen before on crash; none of these solutions worked and at that point I hadn't tried Ubuntu, so I blew my Arch away to give that a go. I'm hoping I don't have to resort to that again.
All help is appreciated.
Last edited by cookiecaper (2007-09-22 12:31:19)

cookie, by chance were you running Compiz Fusion before this happened?
I just removed all my Compiz Fusion stuff (since I'm back to Openbox/GNOME with Xcompmgr) and my desktop is doing the exact thing as yours--lots of broken icons and my GNOME menu is all but missing. 
So far, I have:
* removed nesl247's repos from pacman.conf
* uninstalled compiz-fusion-git
* removed libx11 (1.1.3-4) found in [testing] (which is the version you are running now)
* installed the stable libx11 (1.1.3-1) found in [extra]
One of the above packages must have left behind some settings that are no longer compatible.
--- edit ---
The Compiz Fusion wiki called for this command to fix the fusion-icon after installation:
gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
Could this have anything to do with these problems?
Last edited by thayer.w (2007-09-23 21:15:45)

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