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

[Steve]

Can you post the logfile?

On Jan 8, 2008 11:29 AM, Marc Christensen <marc at sllug.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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