On 02/04/14 21:47, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > On 02/04/2014 06:48 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> One thing you could try is to switch from using GDM to KDM. >> > Tried that this morning and get pretty much the same results. I can log into KDE no problem, gnome-shell from KDM just gets me a cursor and a background image instead of the black screen I got from GDM. > >> One thing that does puzzle me is you said you created a new "local" account and it work. You then moved your home directory out of the way, created a new home, and it still failed. Seems like would have also worked..... > I created a local account (/etc/passwd|group|shadow) that worked. All our accounts here are on NIS, usually with a home directory served via NFS and autofs from a file server. I've also tried with a local home directory and NFS home directory without success. I see.... Sounds like you may have some strange interaction between NIS/NFS and GNOME. Have you tried booting your F20 system to run level 3, logging in, and then trying to run "startx" to see if maybe it spits out anything useful? -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org