I have a Fedora 18 machine on which I use gnome-shell as a desktop. After the last set of updates, I tried to restart. The machine froze during shutdown and I had to reset it from the front panel. Since then, I can't get gnome-shell to start. The greeter runs, but when I log in, I just get the background screen. My keyboard remaps take hold (I swap ctrl and caps-lock to get a Sun keyboard feel), but I don't see any panels. When I tried to troubleshoot that problem, I discovered that /var/log/messages* and some other files were empty. It turns out that syslogd was dead. I've found that it simply doesn't start on boot, but it starts fine when I start it by hand. dmesg and boot.log appear normal AFAICT, though there is nothing in them related to syslog. I've tried googling for solutions, but I haven't find a good set of search terms to target. Can anyone suggest how to start troubleshooting either of these problems? TIA. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
