Gnome-Session problems

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Wed Dec 13 18:47:23 UTC 2006


Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> Hi, My user sission is dying on login.  Alas it dies before anythin
> is writen to .xsession-errors...  The first 1 or 2 icons in the
> fedora splash screen show up before X is killed and I am taken back
> the gdm login screen.  Root and other users are unaffected.
> 
> I think it is beryl-manager... What I want to know is how can I
> prevent these from being in the startup when I can't even login to
> edit my session properties?
> 
> Or, how can I change a users session properties when logged in as
> root?

From a console you can move /home/$USER/.gnome2/session to somewhere
else and then you should get back a default session.  After that, you
can compare the session files and see if there's something obviously
broken in your old one.

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