FC3, GNOME question

[Chris Gramer]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:16:53 -0500, "jim lawrence" <fedorajim at gmail.com>
said:

> Do you have a home directory still?  may sound like a silly question
> but.  If this is a new install as root create a new user account for
> yourself,  and see if you can log in that way.

There is a home directory for my normal account "chris", which I can
access and use when I log in as root or when I log in as chris using
KDE.  Only GNOME locks up.

> Does the /var/log/messages have any output that might be of some
> value?  

Here's the pertinent part:

<SNIP>

Feb 21 14:40:18 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[4966]: session opened for user
chris by (uid=0)
Feb 21 14:40:19 localhost gconfd (chris-5473): starting (version 2.8.1),
pid 5473 user 'chris'
Feb 21 14:40:19 localhost gconfd (chris-5473): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only
configuration source at position 0
Feb 21 14:40:19 localhost gconfd (chris-5473): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/home/chris/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at
position 1
Feb 21 14:40:19 localhost gconfd (chris-5473): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only
configuration source at position 2
Feb 21 14:40:34 localhost gconfd (chris-5473): Exiting
Feb 21 14:40:34 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[4966]: session closed for user
chris
Feb 21 14:40:34 localhost dbus: avc:  1 AV entries and 1/512 buckets
used, longest chain length 1

</SNIP>

I waited only a few seconds for it to work this time, though I have
waited up to 20 minutes before, and no go.  I wonder if choosing "save
current settings" when logging out just after using up2date made it keep
old settings (the "read only configuration" bit) that don't work with
the new version of GNOME...  I'll try creating a whole new account and
see if that helps.  Fortunately I haven't customized things too much in
that account.  :-)

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  Chris Gramer
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