Gnome issues on CentOS 5.3

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:09:43PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> Got an issue this morning with my laptop. For 3 weeks straight, I have
> been suspending it instead of completely shutting it down. However,
> this weekend the battery drained completely and it went off.
> 
> Now, when I switched it on this morning, it looks like gnome profile
> in the account I was using got corrupted.  I can log in as a root or
> as another sample user I just created. However, when I log in my old
> accounts, only the console come up and the whole screen is black. I
> can not enlarge or move the console, which imply X manager is not
> running. In short, there interaction to the system under X is similar
> to that under a naked console - I mean CTRL + ALT + F1
> 
> I have looked around the logs - message file and Xorg.0.log and do not
> seem to get any errors that point at what went wrong. Anyone have an
> idea how I can crack this problem?
> 
> If its not possible to fix the old gnome profile, is there a way of
> backing up the bookmarks without initially logging in to that profile?
>  That would be a good plan B

.xsession-errors might have info.

Do you have a .xsession file?

You could rename .confd .gnome etc and see which one has the bad settings
in it one at a time.

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Len Sorensen
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