vnc not giving GUI, just crosshatched screen

[David Timms]

David Timms wrote:
> On rawhide updated 2008-04-13:
> $ vncserver -kill :1
> $ vncserver :1
> looks normal at the term prompt but after connect/password, shows a grey 
> crosshatched screen.
...
> Haven't rebooted the machine yet. Note the segfault from 
> gnome-settings-daemon 
> {gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1-0.2008.03.26.5.fc9.i386}

===== grep segf /var/log/mes*
/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr  6 22:15:27 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[9692]: segfault at 00000014 eip 058f0c07 esp bff3e52c 
error 4
/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr  6 22:28:24 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[9893]: segfault at 00000014 eip 058f0c07 esp bfa4282c 
error 4
/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr  6 11:56:14 poweredge kernel: 
nautilus[9697]: segfault at 00000008 eip 058ef55e esp bf9ad7c0 error 4
/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr  6 18:46:38 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[2607]: segfault at 14 ip 01aebc77 sp bf8d348c error 4 in 
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.4.5[1ad4000+21000]

/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr  7 20:36:32 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[2635]: segfault at 14 ip 0106ac17 sp bfd7c58c error 4 in 
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.4.5[1053000+22000]
/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr  7 21:50:46 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[2654]: segfault at 14 ip 05f3bc17 sp bfc23c0c error 4 in 
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.4.5[5f24000+22000]

/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr 10 09:11:20 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[2783]: segfault at 14 ip 02733c17 sp bf8bee4c error 4 in 
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.4.5[271c000+22000]

/var/log/messages-20080413:Apr 11 22:56:54 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[5918]: segfault at 14 ip 06e41c17 sp bfc1d9ac error 4 in 
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.4.6[6e2a000+22000]

/var/log/messages:Apr 13 10:06:59 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[24915]: segfault at 14 ip 00230c17 sp bff4ff0c error 4 
in libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.4.6[219000+22000]
/var/log/messages:Apr 13 10:08:50 poweredge kernel: 
gnome-settings-[25208]: segfault at 14 ip 00230c17 sp bff6104c error 4 
in libgnome-desktop-2.so.2.4.6[219000+22000]

During this time I did note a gnome-settings dialog after logging into 
that vnc server. Shall I get some sort of trace ?

DaveT.