update to fedora 10

Patrick Dupre pd520 at york.ac.uk
Mon Mar 2 19:10:29 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig White wrote:

> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Tim wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:21 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello, after I update fc7 to fedora 10, I cannot start an X session
>>>> (startx) when logged as a standard user !
>>>> The mouse pointer does not show up and the gnome session never starts.
>>>> 
>>>> root user is OK.
>>>> I boot in test mode.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What's the permissions of the /tmp directory?  I've seen that sort of
>>> thing in prior releases, because there was a problem there.
>>> 
>>> [tim at suspishus ~]$ ls -dl /tmp
>>> drwxrwxrwt 53 root root 4096 2009-03-03 01:01 /tmp
>>>
>>>         ^ that "t" being crucial, as well as rwx for all the others.
>>> 
>> drwxrwxrwt 59 root root 7168 2009-03-02 14:32 /tmp
>> 
> ----
> since user 'root' is OK, I suspect that you probably are having an issue with 
> older settings and you can temporarily move them out of the way...
>
> Use <Control><Alt><F2> to get to a virtual console.
>
> login as your regular user
>
> execute these commands as a regular user...
>
> mv .gnome .gnome-bak
> mv .gnome2 .gnome2-bak
> mv .gconf .gconf-bak
> mv .gconfd .gconfd-bak

I already tried this, but it does not work.
I have the same problem when creating a brad new user.

>
> and then log in as user to see if that solves the GNOME issue.
>
> Craig
>
>

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