dear Stephen, first check wether gnome is there or not,while you upgraded wether it also got updated? check the version. so do rpm -qa | grep gnome next check which is your default Windo manager do cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop hope this will help you out to get the thing corrected. regards, On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 09:52, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > Fedora Core 2 > (upgrade from RH8.0) > > After upgrade I tried severval days uable to start > Gnome, having played around with following steps > without a solution. > > On GUI login as USER to start Gnome, it appeared as > KDE theme, all gnome packages not found. Renamed all > following files ~/ > > .gnome > .gnome2 > .gnome_private > .gnome2_private > .gnome-desktop > > as .old and rebooted PC. Still could not start Gnome. > A new set of files generated except ~/gnome-desktop > which could not be found after reboot and login > > Started init 3 > $ startx > Started KDE desktop > > $ xterm > xterm Xt error Can't open display > > $ gnome-session > Gtk-warning ** cannot open displays: > (gnome-session:6694) > > $ startx gnome-session > ...... > wating for X server to shut down > Gnome could not start > > Google search could not brought a right solution. > Kindly advise. TIA > > B.R > satimis > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Bimal Pandit Indoasian Fusegear Ltd. (Lightning Division) A-39, Hosiery Complex, Phase - II Extn. Noida, U.P - 201305 Phone:- +91-120-2568472/2568093-098 Fax:- +91-120-2568473 Website:- www.indoasian.com email:- bimalp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx SAVE ENERGY - USE "ECOLITE" CFL _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
