Gnome desktop fails to start after login

[Luis]

When problems like this happens, just go to a terminal: CTRL+ALT+F1
Log in and do: cat .xsession-errors

Usually xsession will show you what went wrong. If I were you i'd simply do:

mkdir old
mv .gconf* .gnome* old

and reboot (so that your /tmp partition/dir is cleared and there are
no processes running under your name)

You should never see a problem after that.

On 9/13/06, enthusiast <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> The problem is with an application being stuck. It is something to do
> with the session start. X is working fine -- cause your mouse is
> working and keyboard is working.
>
>
>
> I created another account in this situation using the terminal login
> (ctrl-alt-F1) and used useradd to add another account. I went back to
> X-terminal and killed it  with ctrl-alt-backspace.
>
>
>
> I logged in using the new account. This indicates that there is
> something wrong with the inital parameters which were inherited from a
> previous gnome-session.
>
>
>
> I am not sure what is causing the problem, but I deleted all the gnome
> session information .* directories and files and a orbit-<username> and
> other session related files in /tmp.
>
>
>
> My guess is that it is the orbit-<> file. Gnome is overly complicated
> and relies on the CORBA object broker which relies on some TCP sockets
> -- etc. -- you are relying on somebodies research project. (Miguel
> Icaza's.)
>
>
>
> AFter I tried to log in with the previously dead account and could get
> in, but gnome-session failed (with corba complaining.) I rebooted and
> logged in again and the gnome-session got rebuilt and everything was
> working fine.
>
>
>
> This seems to be quite a frequent problem for me. I doubt if any causal
> user is ever going to figure out the possible problems with
> gnome-session.
>
>
> --
> enthusiast
>
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>


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