gnome will not start
I use Mate as my DE but would like to have gnome
available as well. However I must have a configuration
error I can not find as I've not been able to login to
a gnome environment for about 3 years.
If I create a test user, that user can login to a gnome
environment. But when I try I get one of two results,
either the screen goes blank, never to change, or I
get a gnome flash screen "Opps, something went wrong!".
I've tried deleting all "~/.gnome..." related directories
including those under ~/.config and ~/.local. But still
no joy.
This has been the situation on my desktop system since
about F24 (currently F29) and carried over to a new F29
laptop where I copied most of my home dir from my desktop.
When there were multiple gnome environments available,
Xorg, Wayland, ???, they all fail.
Though I've looked, I may have missed log entries pointing
me to the problem.
Any insight into what might prevent gnome from starting or
how to investigate?
Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com