can login in gnome only with failsafe

[David M. Carney]

On 04 Dec 2004 20:03:44 -0500, Godfrey <glam at 295.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I try to login, I only get a brown screen with nothing on it
> except the pointer, moving the mouse will move the pointer. There is
> no pannels at the top, neither at the bottom of the screen.
> Crl+Alt+Backspace kill the brown screen and bring back to the GDM
> login screen.  Then when I click on Session, and choose "failsafe on
> Gnome", I can login with the panels, and gnome works fine.  So I
> cannot login gnome normally anymore.  I have no problem before, now I
> can only login with "failsafe".  Any idea?
> 
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Personally, whenever I have problems logging into Gnome, the first
thing I do is go to a tty (ctrl-alt-f1) and move my ~/.ICEauthority to
another folder.

I then try to login again. So far, this had worked for me. 

When you try to login again a new ~/.ICEauthority file will be generated. 

The reason I move the file instead of just deleting it is for in case
this "fix" does not work. Better safe than sorry.

David

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