On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:45:54 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
Beartooth <beartooth <at> comcast.net> writes:
Since, as I confirmed above, I did have session saving enabled before doing the preupgrade, I'm likely suffering under https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698184 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647359 .
Since you're fortunate enough to have a terminal to start applications from, you can just run gnome-session-properties, uncheck the "remember running applications" option, then log out by running gnome-session-quit.
All right, many thanks! I did those two.
On your next login, things should be back to normal (but without session saving).
Nope, alas! I get a picture of a sad face on a screen, telling me "Oh no, something has gone wrong." It says to log in again, so I tried. Three times. No joy. Nor can either of the other users on the login screen (whose passwords I have) get even that far. Both get messages about a failure to update a .ICEauthority file.
Of course, root can't log in either; and Ctrl-Alt-Delete does only a logout, not a reboot. I hit the reset button. Still no joy.
If you didn't have the terminal, the bug reports indicate how to fix things in general by going to a VT and deleting a file. In the latter case, you'd still have to run g-s-p to disable session saving afterwards, otherwise the same thing would happen again on the next login.
I saw talk of that in one of the bugzilla discussions, and refrained from pointing our there that I haven't the foggiest notion of what is meant by going to Virginia Tech (what VT stands for around here), nor how to do it electronically.