I had GNOME act strange after a fresh install. I refreshed all of the gnome rpms and that got things working. I would copy any rpm with the word gnome, bonobo, etc, etc, to your hard drive and force another upgrade. Just an idea. No warranty expressed or implied. --andy On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 08:59, Brad Kittredge wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:58:23 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > 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 > > > > Same thing here. Here's a line from my /var/log/yum.log that might shed > some light: 07/31/04 04:54:22 Updated: libbonobo 2.6.2-1.i386 > > Anyone have an idea? > > Tia >
