Hello, I too have had a HUGE problem after an auto update with yum. I too also logged in as root and made a new user and found everything fine. On a hunch, I rebooted my box and now my profile works just fine. So try a windows fix and reboot ;-) Mark > > The update went fine (used yum). A little while later I logged back > into check something else and received a number of error messages > (listed below) dealing with gnome applets and gnome itself. In addition > the icons on the task bar and on the desktop reverted to the old style > gnome icons. I suspect these are just built in defaults. Read a couple > of messages regarding this in the list but other than delete/move the > .gnome*/.gconf* stuff there was no real explanation. > > I logged in as root and everything appeared as it should with no > errors. I created a new user and had no problems with gnome. >