Re: GNOME won't boot

dragontale wrote:
Hey Jim,

The above didn't work. I tried creating a new user, renaming .gnome
and .gnome2, and cleaning up .metacity/sessions but still no luck. Oh
yea and the same thing happened when I logged in as the new user, I
get the same error message.

I'm trying to run setenforce 0 like you said above but it said it's
disabled. I googled and found some information on enabling SELinux.
It said I have to use system-config-securitylevel. But then once I
typed system-config-securitylevel in the terminal I get the following
error:


SELinux is either corrupted or set to disabled then. It sounds like SELinux is not holding down gnome from starting then.


system-config-securitylevel: error while loading shared libraries
libglade-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory.

libglade2 provides this library. If you deleted this file,
rpm -qV libglade2
should let you know which files are missing from the rpm package.


^ I get the above error. Funny thing is when I uninstalled Glade
Interface Designer, I might've deleted the exact same file as you see
above called "libglade-2.0.so.0"

Can that be the cause?

It could. You might try re-istalling libglade2 with the --replacefiles --replacepkgs options to rpm.


I don't know if this is important but I'm just going to post it up
just in case. Here is a description of how I uninstall Glade
Interface Designer.

1. su 2. login to root 3. rpm -qa | grep -i glade

and then it brought down a list:

libglade2-devel-2.5.1.2 pygtk2-libglade-2.6.0-2 etc etc

There was about 3 or 4 more files to the list but I can't remember
their names, but as I said above I think I deleted libglade-2.0.so.0
because it is not installed in my system. I currently have the above
2 files that I listed. I don't know if this information would do
anything but yea, might give you some clues too.

If you are uninstalling rpms, using the -e switch is the best method.
If the program is from a scripted installer, it is probably going to install in the /usr/local or /opt directories and not where most rpm files are located that are installed from a Fedora repo or the install media.
Deleting files after searching for patterns is probably going to mess you up.

The best thing to do is to read the help files for the progams you install. This should tell you how to uninstall the program safely. Usually there is a removal script provided for the non-rpm package.


I'm really bumbed out, don't know what to do. I just started using
linux. I think it's my 4th week.



You learn by your mistakes. First lesson, one library missing could cause a lot of problems.

Unless you want to experiment, a fresh install sounds the best.

Jim

--
A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions
that make it fail.
-- Jerry Ogdin

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