Hi all folks, Fedora Core 2 (upgrade from RH8.0) After upgrade I tried several days uabling to start Gnome environment, having played around with following steps without a solution. Remark: On GUI login Session to start Gnome, it appeared as KDE theme, all gnome applications not found including Gnome-start (big foot). Right-click on the bottom menu bar -> Add, still could not find Gnome-applications 1) Renamed all following directories ~/ .gnome .gnome2 .gnome_private .gnome2_private .gnome-desktop as .old and Relogin Gnome (including rebooted PC). Still could not start Gnome environment. A new set of directories generated except ~/.gnome-desktop which could not be found after reboot or relogin 2) Started init 3 and login as USER $ startx Started KDE desktop straightwards 3) Started 'Failsave_terminal) as USER $ gnome-session Also started KDE theme as login Gnome-session mentioned above. 4) Could not find ~/user/.xinitrc /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome whereis and locate commands could not find 'xinitrc.gnome' $ ls /etc/X11/xinit/ Xclients xinitrc xinitrc.d Google search could not brought a right solution. Kindly advise. TIA B.R satimis _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk