Re: GNOME won't boot

On Friday 30 June 2006 06:20, dragontale wrote:
I have a major problem. I can't seem to logon to GNOME. After I type in my
password and hit enter, a message pops up saying:

"There was an error starting the GNOME Setting Daemon. Some thing, such as
themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The setting
Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Child process
did not give an error massage, unknown failure occured. GNOME will still
try to restart the Settings Daemon next tiime you log in"

Then it gives me the option to "close" the popup box. So I then hit close.
After that it starts loading for about 12 minutes and then everything goes
blank. When I say "loading" I mean that the "fedora core" sign comes up and
then a picture of icons appear. Sound fimiliar?

As soon as it loads for about 12 minutes or so, it stops and everything
goes away(including the fedora core sign) and the only thing that is in
front of me is a mouse pointer, nothing else.

After that I just waited for about another 15 minutes or so to see if it
would take me to my desktop but it didn't.

The last thing that I did to the computer was uninstalling "Glade Interface
Designer" I'm positive that I didn't uninstall anything that was related to
GNOME. Anyway, after uninstalling Glade Interface Designer, I tried to go
into terminal but it failed. So that's when I restarted the computer. Then
that's when I received the above error message when trying to log in, as
you can see.

As of now, I have no idea what to do to fix this. I will take any
suggestions. Am I toast?

Hi, the simplest thing to do is to create another user, and then try to logon
as that user. If X shows OK, then you can try to clear Gnome related
directories in your home dir or copying ones from the newly created user. The
directories are such as: tmp, gconf, gnome, etc. Don't forget to chown them
to yours.

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