Dear List, The problem was related to a corrupted /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config file. My red hat is off to Red Hat's Bugzilla support group. If you want all the details take a look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178073 In Summary: In one of the more recent module updates /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config became corrupted, but config.bak was left in place. For me to fix the problem with the gui login, gnomoe and kde desktops all I had to do was to rename config.bak to config. After the reboot xfs was working perfectly as well as the gui's. I have 8 FC4 units in service, and only 3 of these were affected. There were 5 that had no problems and there was no config.bak file present on these pc's. In every machine that had a problem, config.bak was present. Each of these pc's were desktop "E-Machine" units. It would not surprise me if this problem occurs for others so I wanted to make sure it became posted until RH can find the affected update module. I would like to thank everyone on the list for their help, and in particular I would like to thank Red Hat's Bugzilla team for their patience and methodology. Greg Ennis
