Thanks for the suggestions. It turns out it was something in my .gconf/desktop I don't know what, but deleting that folder allowed gnome to restart. This is rather serious, but probably very personal to my settings. Bill On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 09:46 +0100, William John Murray wrote: > Hello all, > My desktop machine does not log in under gnome using 2.6.32 > kernel. No error in /var/log/messages or Xorg.o , just a complete hang > I need to reboot. > The previous 2.6.31 kernel is fine. > > I can log in level 3, but with graphics mode, I get to type in username > and password and a few seconds later it freezes. > > Any ideas? > Bill -- Bill Murray ---- ATLAS STFC RAL at: Bat 161 1-14, CERN, 1211 Meyrin, Geneve 23, Switzerland Tel:- CERN +41 22 7673028 or RAL +44 (0)1235 446256 -- Scanned by iCritical. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines