On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 02:41, Ted Kaczmarek wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 01:02, Clifford Snow wrote: > > I can not start gnome when I log in from GDM. I've been using gnome > > with no problems since I upgraded to Fedora. Today it hangs when I > > attempt to log in. Same for any user I try. Everything else seems to > > be working normally. I can log into a kde session without problem Which > > I assume means that X is working ok. > > > > I've tried removing (from a google search) gconf and orbit files in /tmp > > without success. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > Clifford > Try creating a test user, and see if they can log in. > If so, it is likely that something in ~/.gnome2 is your problem. > Some packages can be a little cruel :-) I tried creating a new user with no luck. Finally after giving up using KDE, I reinstalled Fedora. It is a hassle trying to get things back the way I like them. I believe the problem has to do with changing the hostname. I used the command /bin/hostname to change the hostname. What I should have used is redhat-config-network. Why gnome uses hostname is beyond me but it will give an error message when gnome loads if the name isn't in /etc/hosts. The problem stems from using dhcp to get an ip address from my isp. If you don't explicitly set the hostname using redhat-config-network and the isp doesn't provide on, it uses the mac address as the hostname. When installing Fedora you are asked for the hostname. However, I still had to run redhat-config-network to set the name. I'm not sure what the installer uses the hostname for since it didn't seem to set anything. Clifford Snow
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