[Bug 17250] Gnome wont start if date is incorrect.

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------- Additional Comments From Paul.Esson at gmail.com  2005-10-18 10:23 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> gnome-session is more likely to be the culprit that gnome-common.

When this failed on me I initially run failsafe-term and attempted to run gnome
in the way discribed on nat friedman's blog
(http://nat.org/2005/october/#Keep-It-Simple-Stupid). This also didn't work for
me with gnome-panel freezing up when started.

Note. All the people experianeing this problem seem to be mac users with system
clocks that have reset to 1904

I can't quite remember but I think my system clock may have also been on 1904,
this is before the linux Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970) and the problem
perhaps could relate to that ?

Could the solution be to provide users with a message "Your system clock is set
to $date please enter your root password to change time and date"

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