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

[Marc Christensen]

Chris Carey wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I thought of that too but the same thing happens when I log in as 
root so it's a system-wide thing.  So, I'm wondering if there's a 
system-wide lockfile or pipe or data file that's corrupt...

Marc