On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 09:37, Martin Hanneghan wrote: > All of a sudden, Gnome has stopped working if I attempt to login to > FC3 test 3 as a non-root user. Even if I create a new user, they can't > login. I've tried deleting all the .gnome related files and > directories for the user but to no avail. > > Any suggestions how to fix this (or why it happened?) - I'm guessing > some permissions have got corrupted somewhere since root still has a > Gnome graphical desktop. > > Non-graphical login works fine (e.g. failsafe term or logging into a > console window outside of X). XFCE works fine but KDE is bombing out > too saying the session lasted less than 10 seconds... > > Regards > Martin Change to init level 3 (telinit 3), then: Check and correct the permissions of (or maybe delete) the following in /tmp .ICE-unix/* .X0-lock .X11-unix orbit-* gconfd-* In past releases, I've usually deleted .ICE-unix, .X0-lock, and .X11-unix, but I haven't had the problem in Fedora. Also check/correct the permissions of the /tmp directory itself. Mine is drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 8192 Nov 3 10:09 /tmp Bob...
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