Fail to start Gnome environment

[Brad Kittredge]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:58:23 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:

> Hi all folks,
> 
> Fedora Core 2
> (upgrade from RH8.0)
> 
> After upgrade I tried several days uabling to start
> Gnome environment, having played around with following
> steps without a solution.
> 
> Remark:
> On GUI login Session to start Gnome, it appeared as
> KDE theme, all gnome applications not found including
> Gnome-start (big foot).  Right-click on the bottom
> menu bar -> Add, still could not find
> Gnome-applications
> 
> 1)
> Renamed all
> following directories ~/
> 
> .gnome
> .gnome2
> .gnome_private
> .gnome2_private
> .gnome-desktop
> 
> as .old and Relogin Gnome (including rebooted PC). 
> Still could not start Gnome environment.  A new set of
> directories generated except ~/.gnome-desktop which
> could not be found after reboot or relogin
> 
> 2)
> Started init 3 and login as USER
> $ startx
> Started KDE desktop straightwards
> 
> 3)
> Started 'Failsave_terminal) as USER
> $ gnome-session
> Also started KDE theme as login Gnome-session
> mentioned above.
> 
> 4)
> Could not find
> ~/user/.xinitrc
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome
> 
> whereis and locate commands could not find
> 'xinitrc.gnome'
> 
> $ ls /etc/X11/xinit/
> Xclients
> xinitrc
> xinitrc.d
> 
> Google search could not brought a right solution.
> Kindly advise. TIA
> 
> B.R
> satimis
> 

Same thing here.  Here's a line from my /var/log/yum.log that might shed
some light: 07/31/04 04:54:22 Updated: libbonobo 2.6.2-1.i386

Anyone have an idea?

Tia