Re: Fail to start Gnome environment

From: Brad Kittredge (fedora_at_mauryisland.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 05:59:52 -0700

    On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:58:23 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:

    > 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
    >

    Same thing here. Here's a line from my /var/log/yum.log that might shed
    some light: 07/31/04 04:54:22 Updated: libbonobo 2.6.2-1.i386

    Anyone have an idea?

    Tia 

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