gnome via startx OK, gnome via gdm not.

[Brian Millett]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:49 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:45 -0600, Brian Millett wrote:
> > I have been booting into runlevel 3 for quite a while.  After logging
> > in, I do a "startx" and enjoy the gnome desktop.  After the latest
> > rawhide updates, I decided to try/test the runlevel 5 and log in via
> > gdm.  I had several errors where gdm could not be launched and I saw
> > that the path it was trying was /usr/X11R6/bin/... , so I changed them
> > to /usr/bin/... When I did that, I got a nice gdm login screen.  Trying
> > to log in however gives me only a session of "twm".  It doesn't matter
> > if I try a kde session, gnome session, xfce4 session,etc.  All I get is
> > a twm session.
> 
> Try looking at /etc/sysconfig/desktop and see if you see anything in
> there.
> 
> If anything, maybe backup your /home/user dir, delete
> any .gnome/whatever files and try starting it up from scratch and see
> what happens.

Ok, thanks.  I forgot to mention that via the gdm, root and every other
user also gets a twm session, so I'll check the system level stuff like
the /etc/sysconfig files.

Thanks.
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