Gnome hangs

[Jim Cornette]

José Rafael Carrero León wrote:
> hi everybody
> 
> when i login using gnome the systems hangs after a minute or so, it 
> doesn't happen when i
> use KDE, any ideas?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
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> Jose Rafael Carrero Leon
> Linux User #355756
> 

There was a problem caused by some patch added to the mesa libraries 
which caused an SELinux related problem. The problem was related to 
noexec enforcement.

To get around the problem and get GNOME to load. (Actually the window 
manager metacity does not load because of the error with MESA and 
SELinux.) You can boot with enforcing=0 during the grub bootloader 
portion as a parameter to the kernel. If it boots, you might want to 
file a bug against mesa.
This problem effected development for awhile until the patch to mesa was 
reverted.

If the problem is not related to mesa and SELinux, you might shoot for 
problems related to networking such as localhost entries incorrect. I 
had a problem with gnome because of an ethernet card not working as 
designed.

Just a few ideas from a non-expert.

Jim

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