[sllug-members]: Gnome refuses to start after crash

[Chris Carey]

On Jan 8, 2008 11:09 AM, Marc Christensen <marc at mecworks.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> My machine crashed the other day.  When it rebooted, Gnome wouldn't
> start.  I get an error message that my session lasted less than 10
> seconds.  When I look at the details it says something about
> sabayon-apply but no details. I did "rpm -V $(rpm -qa)" and everything
> came back clean so at least the installed packages are all good.
>
> KDE starts fine.  Same with TWM and FVWM.  Now, some may say, with TWM,
> why would anyone want for more?  I hear you.  But this is bugging me so
> if you have any ideas. let me know.
>

You may want to try renaming your .gnome and .gnome2 (etc) folders
prior to login. Maybe some of the config files are corrupt.

Chris