Upgrade to Hoary: problem starting Gnome. FIXED

[CB]

CB wrote:

> Gnome fails to start for me after the upgrade. My .xsessions-errors 
> file contains:
>
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w 
> /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l 
> ":0" "<username>"
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> Failed to start message bus: Failed to read directory 
> "/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services": No such file or directory
> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
>
>
> Of course there isn't a /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services, but there is 
> a /usr/share/dbus-1/services/.
>
> I don't know anything about how Gnome starts up: any idea where it 
> might be getting this mistaken path from?
>
> Btw, I can start Gnome if I choose the 'failsafe'-type session.
>
> Cheers,
>
> CB.
>
>
My mistake. I had some old dbus-1 executables hanging around in 
/usr/local/share/bin (results of earlier compilation attempts).