I am Fairly comfortable with CLI. Just that I do not know how to skip Gnome and log directly into CLI. I tried to edit the systemd to multi-user target by booting from the live CD and accessing the hard drive where the file is stored, but things did not work out and still it is Gnome. If I can reach CLI, I can try removing a couple of packages I have installed and see if they are the culprits or as you mention try desktop installation.
Is there a way I can skip Gnome and go directly into CLI (barring systemd). Win 98 had a wonderful feature that allowed direct entry into CLI by pressing F8 at boot and selecting appropriate option. Sadly neither XP nor Fedora seems to provide such an option.
From: Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx>
To: Freak Trick <trickfreak@xxxxxxxxx>; Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: Only desktop wallpaper after login F15
On 01/17/2012 08:59 AM, Freak Trick wrote:
> I formatted and reinstalled. Again it worked fine the first time. But
> next boot gave the same problem. Moreover without being able to access
> the desktop, I am short of ideas to do anything to resolve the problem.
>
> Any workarounds?
I'm not sure what's going on, but if it happened twice, the third time's not likely to be any better. However, I take it you're not comfortable enough with a CLI to try to work out what's going on that way. Why not try installing at least one other DE, such as KDE or XFCE along with Gnome? Then, when (not if) it happens again, you can try your secondary DE and have a chance to do some forensics, such as groveling through /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
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