gnome-panel crashes after update [FC5]

[LarryT]

Jim,
First of all i thank you for answering !

Before i made the update, everything was working well. From the 
beginning i have have disable SElinux and firewall, cause i am behind  a 
other firewall (IPCOP).
It is exactly after i made this update that the both gnome panels (top 
and buttom) crashed at logon. (i wanted to update cups, and it added 
many deps ; you can see my yum.log there : 
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=566805&postcount=1)

And i didnt install any other things.

I gonna try what you tell me
thx a bunch

Larry
"Computers are like air conditioners - They stop working properly when 
you open Windows !"


Jim Cornette wrote:
> LarryT wrote:
> 
>> Hi !
>> After i post my question on fedoraforum 
>> (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=568986#post568986)
>> and found a bug about this problem 
>> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309539), which is not 
>> resolved,
>> I would appreaciate any hlep of any kind, since i can use my fc5 on 
>> gnome !
>> ...
>>
>> thx
> 
> 
> What was your system like before you did the upgrade? Did the panel work 
> normally?
> Did you install any software for video drivers or other programs recently?
> 
> 
> Things that you can try.
> 
> Create a new user and log in as the other user without problems.
> 
> Something in the .gnome .gnome2 or .gnome2_private or .gnome_private 
> directories could be causing the problem. The .metacity directory under 
> your user directory might have problems in them. You might move, rename 
> these directories and see if the panel will start on the next start of 
> the system.
> 
> Also, there could be a problem related to SELinux. You might log into a 
> shell as root and run setenforce 0 before trying to start gnome to see 
> if it starts after putting SELinux into permissive mode. (logs selinux 
> failure issues but allows processes to happen).
> 
> If setting selinux to permissive allows the panel to start up, you might 
> need to relabel your file system for SELinux. The easiest way to do this 
> is to run
> touch /.autorelabel
> in a root terminal which will create an empty file in / with the 
> .autorelabel name. You then need to type reboot in the shell or restart 
> the computer in other ways. Your system should pause at reboot telling 
> you that it is adding security information to your files and it will 
> take awhile to complete. After the relabeling is completed, you should 
> get your login screen and gnome when logged in.
> 
> 
> Just my ideas. Someone else may have experienced your problem directly 
> and  know an easier way.
> 
> Jim
>