Fail to start Gnome environment

[Stephen Liu]

Hi all folks,

Fedora Core 2
(upgrade from RH8.0)

After upgrade I tried several days uabling to start
Gnome environment, having played around with following
steps without a solution.

Remark:
On GUI login Session to start Gnome, it appeared as
KDE theme, all gnome applications not found including
Gnome-start (big foot).  Right-click on the bottom
menu bar -> Add, still could not find
Gnome-applications

1)
Renamed all
following directories ~/

.gnome
.gnome2
.gnome_private
.gnome2_private
.gnome-desktop

as .old and Relogin Gnome (including rebooted PC). 
Still could not start Gnome environment.  A new set of
directories generated except ~/.gnome-desktop which
could not be found after reboot or relogin

2)
Started init 3 and login as USER
$ startx
Started KDE desktop straightwards

3)
Started 'Failsave_terminal) as USER
$ gnome-session
Also started KDE theme as login Gnome-session
mentioned above.

4)
Could not find
~/user/.xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome

whereis and locate commands could not find
'xinitrc.gnome'

$ ls /etc/X11/xinit/
Xclients
xinitrc
xinitrc.d

Google search could not brought a right solution.
Kindly advise. TIA

B.R
satimis

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