Hi, there are MANY ways to reach point where gnome does not load ofter logging in gdm. This problem is of the HIGHEST SEVERITY, as it dissallow any gnome using. The problem was signalized by me in few times bugzilla.redhat.com, but it seems all those bugs remain as NEW ?!?! (bug numbers 134169, 134212, 136081, 137778, 124078) I found some (brutal force) methods to deal with problem. One of them is removing ~/.gnome2/session (editing this file deos not help). Another method is removing whole ~/.gnome2 directory. Where are gnome-session developers. Is this so hard to add some time of software watchdog waiting for loaded gnome. If the gnome deos not load then restart gnome session with default parameters. Now the user have to remove some config files by hand. Many of users does not even know where are these files. Darek Borkowski