Fail to start Gnome environment

[Andy Choens]

I had GNOME act strange after a fresh install.  I refreshed all of the
gnome rpms and that got things working.  I would copy any rpm with the
word gnome, bonobo, etc, etc, to your hard drive and force another
upgrade.

Just an idea.  No warranty expressed or implied.

--andy

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 08:59, Brad Kittredge wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:58:23 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> 
> > Hi all folks,
> > 
> > Fedora Core 2
> > (upgrade from RH8.0)
> > 
> > After upgrade I tried several days uabling to start
> > Gnome environment, having played around with following
> > steps without a solution.
> > 
> > Remark:
> > On GUI login Session to start Gnome, it appeared as
> > KDE theme, all gnome applications not found including
> > Gnome-start (big foot).  Right-click on the bottom
> > menu bar -> Add, still could not find
> > Gnome-applications
> > 
> > 1)
> > Renamed all
> > following directories ~/
> > 
> > .gnome
> > .gnome2
> > .gnome_private
> > .gnome2_private
> > .gnome-desktop
> > 
> > as .old and Relogin Gnome (including rebooted PC). 
> > Still could not start Gnome environment.  A new set of
> > directories generated except ~/.gnome-desktop which
> > could not be found after reboot or relogin
> > 
> > 2)
> > Started init 3 and login as USER
> > $ startx
> > Started KDE desktop straightwards
> > 
> > 3)
> > Started 'Failsave_terminal) as USER
> > $ gnome-session
> > Also started KDE theme as login Gnome-session
> > mentioned above.
> > 
> > 4)
> > Could not find
> > ~/user/.xinitrc
> > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome
> > 
> > whereis and locate commands could not find
> > 'xinitrc.gnome'
> > 
> > $ ls /etc/X11/xinit/
> > Xclients
> > xinitrc
> > xinitrc.d
> > 
> > Google search could not brought a right solution.
> > Kindly advise. TIA
> > 
> > B.R
> > satimis
> > 
> 
> Same thing here.  Here's a line from my /var/log/yum.log that might shed
> some light: 07/31/04 04:54:22 Updated: libbonobo 2.6.2-1.i386
> 
> Anyone have an idea?
> 
> Tia
>