Fail to start Gnome environment

From: Stephen Liu (satimis_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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    Hi all folks,

    Fedora Core 2
    (upgrade from RH8.0)

    After upgrade I tried several days uabling to start
    Gnome environment, having played around with following
    steps without a solution.

    Remark:
    On GUI login Session to start Gnome, it appeared as
    KDE theme, all gnome applications not found including
    Gnome-start (big foot). Right-click on the bottom
    menu bar -> Add, still could not find
    Gnome-applications

    1)
    Renamed all
    following directories ~/

    .gnome
    .gnome2
    .gnome_private
    .gnome2_private
    .gnome-desktop

    as .old and Relogin Gnome (including rebooted PC).
    Still could not start Gnome environment. A new set of
    directories generated except ~/.gnome-desktop which
    could not be found after reboot or relogin

    2)
    Started init 3 and login as USER
    $ startx
    Started KDE desktop straightwards

    3)
    Started 'Failsave_terminal) as USER
    $ gnome-session
    Also started KDE theme as login Gnome-session
    mentioned above.

    4)
    Could not find
    ~/user/.xinitrc
    /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome

    whereis and locate commands could not find
    'xinitrc.gnome'

    $ ls /etc/X11/xinit/
    Xclients
    xinitrc
    xinitrc.d

    Google search could not brought a right solution.
    Kindly advise. TIA

    B.R
    satimis

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