Joshua, I gleaned a few things from your post. I tried changing to a couple of other themes besides Human. Clear look didn't seem to work any better, Darkroom however, did, but in the end it only crashes as well. I tried removing that directory <pre style="margin-left: 40px;">OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-zDODmA/.gconf/apps/panel/applets'</pre> and restarting and didn't seem to help. Thanks for trying! David <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Joshua Higgins <<a href="mailto:joshiggins@googlemail.com">joshiggins@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I too have been trying to set up Sabayon. Every version I can find just doesn't work. In the end I gave up and set up multiple /etc/skel dirs, e.g. /etc/skel.sysadmin and copied the profile I wanted there. You can specify the skel dir on the adduser command. Looking at your logs, the 39-53 one from the thin client seems to complain about the icon theme. The important parts to me are here: <pre>MainThread 2009/08/16 09:39:53.3113 (admin-tool): ========== BEGIN SABAYON-SESSION LOG ========== /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: could not open display warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning) /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sabayon/sessionwindow.py:76: GtkWarning: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed icon_theme = gtk.icon_theme_get_default () </pre> I believe that SABAYON-SESSION is the session that is launched for you to edit inside. Basically Sabayon sets up a temporary home directory and launches a session in it, monitors it for changes and applies those changes to other users. IIRC it does this using a nested xserver. The log complains "GtkWarning: could not open display" which says to me that the nested xserver wasn't started, probably because of the thin client's current X driver or configuration. Hence the routines to determine the Gtk icon theme and etc fail and Sabayon bombs out. On the server, the log seems to say that it doesn't even get that far. The important part from this log : <pre>OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/tmp/sabayon-temp-home-zDODmA/.gconf/apps/panel/applets' </pre>This seems to say that the temporary home folder sabayon is expecting to create already exists. You could try simply deleting the path shown here as it looks like its expecting it to be empty, but as always its at your own risk. It looks to me like Sabayon is missing error catching routines, like cannot create the nested xserver and temporary files still exist. Anyway, hope this helps you to maybe understand the logs more. If I find the time I might work the scripts I've put together into a useable application, as Sabayon seems plauged by so many issues that vary on different setups. -- joshua higgins >>>>>>------ </blockquote></div>