gnome-session problem with FC2

[Andrea Giuliano]

It sounds like gnome-session has been lost, or at least it's no longer
in the PATH.

First try this on a command line, preferably with BASH:

# which gnome-session

If it doesn't show a full path name to gnome-session, either
gnome-session is no more on the disk, or the PATH is corrupted for some
reason, e.g. your .bashrc or such file is corrupted or missing.

Next try this one if the above showed a full path name:

# rpm -V $(rpm -qf $(which gnome-session))

The above line checks if the package containing gnome-session is OK.
Actually, that package should simply be "gnome-session" itself.

Let me know what happens.

Best regards.

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:05, linux wrote:
> This morning I woke up to find my Fedora (core 2) box had stopped (due
> to the electricity supply twitching). When I re-started it, I
> attempted to log in only to find an error being reported when logging
> in as a user:
> 
> /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp
> and utmp
> /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w
> /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0"
> "chris"
> /home/chris/.XClients-default: line 2: exec: gnome-session: not found
> 
> When logging in as root, I get only a graphical command box.
> 
> Can anyone here cast any light on this problem and how I can correct
> it?
> 
> Thanks
> Chris Jones
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