Fedora Test 2 will not log in to Gnome?

[seth vidal]

> However, on the first boot after installation, I can not log on to the 
> Gnome desktop.  KDE works just fine.   The interesting thing is that I 
> chose the customized install, and had Gnome checked, and KDE UNCHECKED. 
>   Just in case I missed something, I have formatted the drive 3 times 
> and reinstalled, making SURE that gnome was selected, and KDE was not.  
> When I attempt to log in to gnome, the screen exhibits the same 
> behavior as if i choose the "restart X Server" option on the login 
> screen.  Is anyone else experiencing this?  Can someone give me the 
> command line option to verify that Gnome is even installed? (I'm a 
> linux newbie, so be gentle)  Any assistance would be greatly 
> appreciated.  Thanks,


which gnome-session

if you don't get
/usr/bin/gnome-session then it is not installed

-sv