Beartooth <beartooth <at> comcast.net> writes:
This has reached a point where, after I click a couple of things,
my terminal gets covered up, and the only way I can get back to it is to
hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and log in again.
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 .
I don't know for sure how much of what I'm posting results from
one or both of those bugs, and how much might be new.
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. On your next
login, things should be back to normal (but without session saving). 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.